Apr 07 2009
Rolling With the Punches - Homemade Pancakes
Crazy Girl arrived home today from DC and informed me: “I want pancakes”.
I went with my usual response: “Well, I want a million dollars.”
This time, however, she said: “OK!”
She gave me my souvenir, a million dollar bill with Obama on it.
And I made pancakes. Now, most of the time we use baking mix just for convenience sake. But we were out of the mix so I went with my from scratch recipe.
Or I would have, were we not out of a key ingredient. Baking Soda.
The normal recipe is:
1-1/2 C Flour
1-1/2 C Milk
1 Egg
2 Tbsp Oil
1 Tbsp Vanilla
3 Tbsp Sugar
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1 Tbsp Baking Powder
Blend together and then pour into a hot skillet in 1/4 cup increments.
However, with the absence of baking soda, it required some quick thinking and substitution with already present ingredients. Luckily, baking soda can be substituted with baking powder. For the 1/2 tsp of baking soda, I used 1 tsp of baking powder, bringing the total of baking powder to 1 Tbsp+1 tsp of Baking powder.
After blending everything together, I cooked it as usual and they came out slightly flatter, but still really good.
Rolling with the punches, learning what to substitute when, makes life, and pancakes, good.
For example, 1 Tbsp of lemon juice added to 1 C of whole milk makes a great buttermilk substitute. And, apparently, adding 1/2 cup of Buttermilk to 1/2 tsp of baking soda makes a good substitute for baking powder. And, accidentally making buttermilk and then finding out it was baking SODA not POWDER that you were out of does not mean you can’t use the buttermilk in your pancakes.
You learn something new every day!
