My wife, who’s an accomplished cook and baker, scribbled out a simple recipe to help me make pancakes.
I took that simple instruction and had fun turning it into this monster.
Ingredients
This makes four or five small pancakes.
- 1 cup self raising flour
- 1.5 tblsp sugar
- 1 egg
- 125ml milk
- 1 tsp baking powder
0.5 tsp citric acid (optional)- 30ml (approx) hot water
Equipment
- Large mixing bowl
- Measuring jug
- Small bowl
- Large frying pan
- Vegetable oil
- Whisk
- Spatula (turner)
- Ladle
- Oil brush
- Cooling rack
- Measures:
- 1 cup (237ml)
- 1 tblsp
- 1 tsp
- 0.5 tsp
Instructions
- Boil the kettle.
- Put the frying pan on a medium heat.
- Add some vegetable oil to the pan.
- In the large mixing bowl, mix flour and baking powder.
- In the measuring jug, whisk together the egg and the milk.
- In the small bowl, mix the hot water, sugar
and citric aciduntil dissolved.
- Pour the egg and milk into the large mixing bowl.
- Combine them with the flour and baking powder.
- Do not over-mix.
- Add the water, sugar and citric acid mix to the large mixing bowl and combine.
- Consistency should be like thick double cream.
- Do not over mix.
Cooking stage
- Use the oil brush to distribute the oil evenly in the pan.
- Pour one ladle-full of mixture into the centre of the pan.
- Flip the pancake using the spatula as soon as the bottom is solid. (This prevents the bubbles escaping from the top and makes the pancakes nice and puffy.)
- Cook until light brown.
- Flip if needed to finish off the first side.
- Place on the cooling rack.
- Add more oil to the pan if needed.
Repeat cooking stage until large mixing bowl is empty 😋