Recipe: Homemade Pancakes

Here's a recipe for homemade pancakes that has been 5 years in the making.  Our hand written recipe book includes no less than 10 pancakes recipes (this seems to happen to most when trying to replicate IHOP).  We have finally developed a recipe that is fast, easy, and tastes great.

Tim and Jul's Homemade Pancakes

 Ingredient List:

1 1/4 Cup Flour

1 Egg

1 1/4 Cup Butter Milk (or regular milk with a dash of cider vinegar added).

1/8 Cup Sugar

1 heaping teaspoon of baking powder.

1/2 teaspoon of baking soda.

2 tablespoons melted butter (hey, I didn't say it was fat free)

1 tablespoon of vegetable oil.

Pinch of Salt.

Sift the flour, baking soda, and baking powder into a bowl with the sugar and salt.  

Mix the milk with the egg (beaten).  Add the cooking oil and the cooled melted butter.  BE SURE THE BUTTER IS COOLED.  If not it will clump and affect your outcome.

Once you have all of your wet and dry ingredients combined separately, mix them together but only mix lightly.  Mix only enough to combine the wet and the dry and then STOP.  Do not beat it like you're beating an egg.  Very lightly is the key.

Put your whisk down and walk away for at least 15 minutes.  

In the mean time pre-heat your griddle or griddle pan to 375 degrees, or medium high.

When the pancake mixture has formed bubbles on the surface, it is ready to go.  At this point if you are in the mood for thicker or thinner pancakes add a little water or flour to change your consistency but be careful.  The entire dish can be ruined as easily as it was made.

You know how to do the rest.  Watch for air pockets forming and then exhaling.  Once the top of your pancake is full of vacant air bubbles it's time to flip.

Flip it, cook until done, then serve with melted butter on top and real maple syrup.

Keep it griddle.