Sunday, April 12, 2015

Perfect Pancakes

I've been looking for a nice, fluffy pancake recipe for a while now - only have found flat, dull, and uninspired offerings.  My usual breakfast is  hard boiled eggs and prune juice so when I find the urge to splurge pancakes are go to.  I could never find the right recipe,  leaving me with earth shaking anger and frustration, things are looking up.

Luckily I found this recipe which has worked on two sepearate occurances, once when I was serving  mimosa (serving for four - drinking for one) and once when I was stone cold hung over.   Both worked, so i assume this is a failure free moment, and in those extreme hangrey moments, this fluffy pancake receipe will not let you down.

Here's what you need:



  • 3/4 Cup of Milk (2% or buttermilk) - shud up- you don't have these everyday
  • 2 tbsps of white vinegar (sours the milk, used only if you are using 2% - stay with me)
  • 1 cup of white flour
  • 2 tbsp of white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon of baking power
  • 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon of salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons of melted butter
Fool proof (hung over or not) directions:

  1. If your using 2% milk add the vinegar to the milk and let it sour.
  2. Combine all your dry ingredients to the flour sifter
  3. Combine all your wet ingredients to the soured milk
  4. (do the math) and Combine dry and wet ingredients together, whisking so there are no clumps.
  5. Drop 1/4 cup globs on to a medium heat pan / skillet. 
the batter is pretty thick so good luck getting perfect circles