Our favourite Kitchen Auntie has pretty ‘darn’ good American Pancake mix, but this is a recipe from the BBC that never seems to fail. To serve 4, they recommend:
- 135g of plain flour
- 1 tsp of baking powder
- A pinch of salt
- 2 tbsp of caster sugar
- 130ml of milk
- 1 large, lightly beaten free-range egg, and
- 2tbsp of cooled, melted butter
Mix all the dry elements together in one bowl and whisk the wet (milk, egg and butter) in another before pouring it into the flour. Beat everything together gently with a fork to create a smooth batter.
Melt some butter in a pan, then add just a ladle’s worth of batter. Don’t forget, American pancakes are a smaller diameter than their Shrove Tuesday cousins and thicker too, about 1cm deep.
Fry it until it bubbles on top and is golden brown below, flip and brown this side too.
Carry on until all the batter has gone then have fun topping out with perhaps ice cream, thick cream, and ‘oh-so-fruity’ Blackcurrant Extra Jam that’s been heated slightly to let it flow over the pancakes. If you want to be really decadent, add a splash of port to the jam as you heat it.
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