Pete's Pancakes

Pancake from scratch

Over the years, we've tried several pancake recipes, but we always come back to, "It's no better than the mix" so we generally save ourselves the hassle and buy the "just add water" mixes. However, Monday I wanted to make pancakes to go with the vegan bacon I bought and found that we were out of pancake mix. Since it was Thanksgiving Day and everything was closed, I just looked a recipe up and happened on the best pancake recipe we've ever tried. Thanks Pete!

Here is the recipe:

2 cups flour
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp baking powder
2 eggs (beat them separately before adding to mixture)
1⁄4 cup butter, melted (1/8 of a pound)
1 3⁄4 cups milk

Combine the dry ingredients. Beat the eggs in a separate bowl, then add the milk and melted butter. Add the wet ingredients gradually to dry, by creating a well in the center of the flour mixture and stirring the egg mixture in slowly. Be sure you don't over-mix; it should still be lumpy.

Let the batter sit for 10 minutes while the pan heats up. The trick to cooking pancakes is not to flip them until bubbles begin to appear in the center.

These pancakes are light and fluffy and taste fantastic. By the way, the second time we had them we were out of milk and just used water and I didn't notice a difference at all.