Fred Marple is up early, working on a little surprise for the missus. 

Here's Fred's semi-secret recipe for Perfectly Good Corn Pancakes:

1. Buy a package of Jiffy corn muffin mix.

2. Follow the pancake recipe on the side, BUT...

3. Instead of 3/4 cup milk, just use 1/4 cup milk, AND...

4. Add 1/2 cup of cream-style corn.

Then make 'em the way you would any other pancakes--you don't need us to tell you how to do that. For goodness sakes don't overbeat the batter. You want leathery pancakes, go right ahead, but don't say we didn't warn you.