How To Make Pancakes (from Scratch!)
- 1 cup flour (white or whole wheat)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup milk, soy milk, some other milkish product
- 1 teaspoon apple cider or white vinegar
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 egg
- Whisk the dry ingredients together.
- Separately, whisk the wet ingredients together. (If you have real buttermilk, use that instead of the milk + vinegar.)
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix that up well.
- Heat a skillet over medium-high heat and oil it with a teaspoon of oil or some spray oil or what-have-you. Wait until it’s good and hot then, using a 1/4 c measure, pour some pancake batter on it.
- Now wait. Wait until they are covered in cratery-looking holes and the peripheries are looking dried out.
- Now flip. Deftly. Let them cook another 2 minutes or so until the other side is nice and brown.
- Serve those while you cook the rest, re-oiling the skillet between batches. This will make 8-10 pancakes, enough for 3-4 people, or one Paul Bunyan.