An Easy Recipe

Pancakes are my favorite breakfast food. Of course pancakes are good any time of day. I have a basic pancake recipe where I mix flour, milk, sugar, baking powder, and eggs together in my food processor. It is what you add to the pancakes that make the difference. Sometimes I add blue berries to the batter. I like to process them in the food processor so the blue berries are not lumping in the pancakes when I cook them. But either way works.

You can use frozen blue berries. They are usually less expensive and simply let them defrost before adding them to the batter. You can add pumpkin to the batter for some nice autumn pancakes. Use of can of pumpkin. Do not use the can of pumpkin pie mix. The regular canned pumpkin works better.

You can also make sweet potato pancakes. Now these are not potato pancakes. These are sweet potato flavored pancakes. Use canned sweet potato. You can add some of the liquid if you like. But not too much so your batter is not to runny. You will not use the whole can of sweet potatos so make sure you place the rest in an air tight container and refrigerate them.

Strawberry pancakes are a good mid summer morning treat. I process the strawberries in the food processor in the batter because they are too large to have them sticking out of the batter on the griddle.

Now I like to cook my pancakes on a griddle that I have brushed with a little cooking oil. I heat the griddle and then coat the surface with cooking oil using a pastry brush I paint the surface with oil. I then drop a few drops of batter on the griddle to make sure it is hot enough. If the drops start cooking I scrape them aside and start pouring the batter onto the griddle.

I pour about a five inch circle of batter. I turn them when the bubbles have formed but before they have all popped on the surface. If you like your pancakes more cooked you can wait until all the bubbles have popped. Flip the pancake and cook for about forty more seconds. Longer if you like your pancakes more cooked.

I place the pancake onto my plate and cover it with a pie tin. I start on my next. I like two pancakes on my plate. You want to use real maple syrup. I pour my syrup in a bowl and I set it on the stove top so it will get warm. I also place a piece of butter in the bowl so it will be melted into the syrup. If you read the grocery store pancake syrup you will find it is nothing but corn syrup.

Be fair to yourself and your pancakes. Get real maple syrup. You may have to to to a specialty store or shop on the internet. But do what you have to do to top your pancake recipe with real maple syrup. May you enjoy your next plate of pancakes. I think I will cook some up right now.

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