I wanted to make Pancakes last night, but I don’t have any Pancake mix, so I tried to find a pancake recipe online. Most of them had “All-Purpose Flour” as the main ingredient, and I couldn’t remember if that was different than regular flour. (Upon reflection I think it is “Self-Rising” flour that I was thinking of when I heard “All-Purpose”)
1 c. flour
1 tsp. soda (I need to get some of this… I only have the stuff in my refrigerator. Since the pancakes were for me I went for it)
1 tsp. baking powder
3 tbsp. sugar (I don’t have any, so I put in 1/2 tbsp. of Vanilla instead)
2 tbsp. oil (I used Olive)
Pinch of salt
1 egg
1 c. buttermilk OR 1 tbsp. vinegar in 1 c. milk (Mix the vinegar into the milk… don’t just pour it on top of the stuff or it reacts with the baking soda.)
They turned out great! It made about 6 pancakes.
Make sure the griddle is heated up before you put the first one down… My first pancake didn’t hold together well.
If you don’t have a turner, make sure that you let it cook about 3/4 the way through or the raw batter on the top will splash when you flip it in the air…
HOBBES: Now, the recipe says that it makes twenty-four pancakes, so we’ll each get twelve.
CALVIN: Nah, that’s too much trouble.
We’ll just make one big pancake and cut it in half.
the trouble with that is the surface area (which is good for butter absorption) is cut way back… No one wants that…
well, I never said I was advocating it.