This morning I used up the remainder of the dry pancake mix.
He has a whipped egg white for these. I always do that for waffles but never had for pancakes.
I definitely see his love of tall pancakes everywhere. I’ve read that he grew up in an apartment above his Japanese grandparents. Japan loves those tall jiggly (gross and raw seeming to me) pancakes.
I wonder if that’s where this whipped egg white plus baking soda plus baking powder is coming from.
There’s a ton of structure built in here and then a lot of care to keep things from getting tough.
I loved the layering of sour cream with buttermilk. You could smell the tangy from raw.
So I’m reading through this cookbook like a novel and my reading is now way ahead of what I’ve managed to cook so far.
He made this statement in the biscuits chapter, coming up shortly, that there isn’t much difference between biscuits and pancakes.
I scoffed out loud. I wanted to fight him.
Now I see what he was talking about.
I thought with my last trial (lemon ricotta pancakes) that either I had done something wrong or that the ricotta pancake was a weird outlier.
No!
His pancakes really are basically biscuits.
Look at that “batter”.
It’s no wonder these things are tall.
They are biscuits. This is dough. All his pancake batters are dough.
What on earth is happening?!
I came across a shining tip of wonder here though.
He said to add blueberries at the very last moment. While the batter is already in the pan, spoon blueberries onto the pancake.
I love blueberry pancakes but unless I use freeze dried blueberries they always come out gray/purple and hideous.
They taste good but there is a bit of a blow to the ego when you present your family with gray pancakes.
I have blueberry bushes and strawberry’s and lots of wine berries and some blackberries in my yard. I cook with them when they are in season.
I’ve had to relegate the blueberries to smoothies because I couldn’t face the gray.
But look at these!
Gorgeous and delicious.
The sweet berry’s go so well with the sour mix.
I loved these.
An unexpected win.
The whole family enjoyed them even after a breakfast of pancakes just one day before.
I ran a little side experiment here where I poured a little extra buttermilk into the bottom of the bowl to make a leftover batter of the consistency I prefer.
It’s not a good fit.
It was gummy.
I think our pancakes are just too different for an easy borrowing.
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