American Pancakes

Before - and After!

Ingredients:
135g (4.3/4 ozs) plain flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tbls. (or more) sugar
130ml. (4.1/2 fl.ozs) milk
1 large egg - lightly beaten
2 tblspns. sunflower oil

little butter and oil to fry pancakes.

1. Add all the ingredients together and beat until lovely and smooth.  Let the batter - which is quite thick - rest for a few minutes.
2. Melt a little butter and oil in a non-stick frying pan - pour off any excess - but keep it for next lot of pancakes.
3. Pour a ladlefull of batter into the hot pan and cook until the top is beginning to 'set'.
Turn the pancake and cook the other side.  This doesn't take long - lift it gently to check if going golden - pancake should have slightly risen too.

Repeat until all the batter is used and you have a batch of delicious pancakes.
Serve with lots of maple syrup, fruit ..... anything of choice.
Very delicious.

American Pancakes

Ingredients: batter is best made in advance*
Dry ingredients:
1 cup of plain flour (cake flour)
1 tsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. baking powder

Wet ingredients:
1 beaten egg added to
1 cup of buttermilk (or yogurt and milk) and
1-2 tablspns. melted butter

1. Sift all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl
2.  Add the wet ingredients and mix well, but dont overbeat.

I left my batter in the fridge overnight, covered, but dont think it's necessary to leave it this long - probably *anywhere from 3-6 hrs. is ok.  If the mixture looks a little too thick, you can add some milk.

3. Using a large hot frying pan, place carefully in - ladlefuls of batter.

Just heat your frying pan - you dont need to put any extra fat in to fry the pancakes.  
(A non-stick pan is easy.)
Wait until bubbles rise to the surface of the pancake, and making sure the surface is almost dry, loosen around the edges with a flat knife, and carefully turn over with a spatula - cook for another minute or so and remove with a spatula.    

If you manage to have two pans going at once, you can obviously get more done.

The first lot - for some strange reason :) - dont come out as well as the rest of the batch! This seems to be a universally accepted  'rule' with most pancakes!!

These are really easy to make, and are delicious any way, but we like them with streaky bacon, Maple Syrup (and a little lemon juice).