Favorite Pancakes

 Favorite Buttermilk Pancakes

Whisk together in big bowl:

2 cups buttermilk

3 eggs

2 Tablespoons cooking oil or melted butter

Whisk until nice and frothy

In a sifter or in one of those fine mesh strainers (set on top of a plate

so the flour mixture will not get all over your work surface), place

1 and 1/2 cups unbleached white flour

1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 pinch salt (or 2

1-2 teaspoons white sugar

(I usually forget to put the sugar in. It still tastes great)

Sift with sifter or shake the strainer of dry ingredients into the bowl of frothy liquids and with a few quick stirring motions of the whisk, whisk the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until everything is combined. It will be a lumpy batter. Sweep the whisk back and forth just a couple times, making sure you are scraping the bottom of the bowl as you do so...to get any extra big lumps broken up. Let it sit 5 minutes or so. This allows it to start to bubble a bit which makes the pancakes fluffier. I use an electric griddle and heat it to almost the highest degree...just a hair short of the highest temp. Make sure the griddle is greased well with oil. I pour a bit of oil on the griddle and then wipe it around the whole surface with a paper towel or flipper. You can make this in any stove top skillet but it will be trial and error as to proper temperature.

When griddle nice and hot, spoon the batter onto it, making whatever size pancakes you want. When the bubbles on the top side start to break, you can flip the pancakes over. Keep them on the griddle just long enough to cook them through. Then take them off and stack them on a plate and make the rest of the pancakes withy remaining batter. Never pat them with your flipper. You do not want to flatten out these nice fluffy pancakes; they will flatten by themselves after you take them off the griddle.

Serve with butter and real maple syrup...or eat plain. Enjoy

FOR BLUEBERRY PANCAKES, Gently stir 1 cup or more of fresh raw blueberries into the mixed batter, then cook as directed. .(I never use frozen berries. They bleed and discolor the batter .)