So, it's been a week since I've updated this blog. And, boy, what a week it's been! From now on, I'm going to make it a point of posting at least two posts a week; a very detailed, more complicated, recipe on Mondays (so that I have the weekend to work on it), and a bit more of an easy recipe (probably with only one or two pictures) on Fridays, in preparation for an easy-flowing weekend. Does that sound like a good plan? I think so! Anyways, let's get down to business...
Seeing as how today was St-Jean Baptiste (Québec's 'national' holiday), I decided to have a lazy morning and make some delicious pancakes. Yay! I usually follow a family recipe that my mom has written down on a slip of paper somewhere, but I was feeling a little bit daring and wanted to try something a little different today. I remembered a recipe that I had seen online a few months ago that seemed pretty straightforward, so I decided to try it out. Much to my surprise, I found out that it only consists of seven ingredients!
Ingredients: (adapted from Good Old Fashioned Pancakes on allrecipes.ca Canada)
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour;
- 3 1/2 tsp baking powder*;
- 1 tsp salt**;
- 3 tbsp butter, melted**;
- 1 tbsp white sugar;
- 1 1/4 cup milk***;
- 1 egg****.
*Although these ingredients are pretty basic, I forgot to check if all of them were available before I started to make the pancakes this morning. I was at my boyfriend's last night, and he doesn't have as much of a large supply of ingredients as my house does. Also, unfortunately, all of the stores were closed this morning due to St-Jean... Oops! Anyways, after a quick online search, I found that you could replace baking powder with an equal amount of one part baking soda mixed with two parts cream of tartar. For example, since this recipe calls for 3 1/2 tsp of baking powder, I used approximately 1 1/6 tsp baking soda and 2 1/3 tsp cream of tartar. **Usually, when baking, I use unsalted butter. Today, since I didn't have access to unsalted butter, I decided to simply omit the salt. With time, you'll see that I tend to do this in a lot of my recipes. ***For the milk, since I'm lactose-intolerant, I usually opt for soya milk. By far, my favorite has to be the vanilla-flavoured Silk brand. ****Finally, to put an end to all of these stars (did you notice that I like to make changes to recipes, yet? :P)... Again, with the lack of available ingredients this morning, I had to improvise the use of eggs in my recipe as well. Thankfully, I came across a wonderful page from Eggless Cooking that explained how to substitute vinegar and baking soda instead of eggs. The trick is to add 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar (white distilled vinegar works too, but I preferred to use something a bit more tasteful and tart, to go with the maple syrup!) along with 1 tsp baking soda to replace each egg.
Instructions:
1. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar.
2. Make a well in the center of the dry mixture.
3. Pour in the milk, egg, and melted butter.
5. Heat a non-stick pan (or you could add about half a teaspoon of butter to a regular frying pan before each pancake) over medium heat. (You could also use a hot plate if you have one. I find they're great if you're making more than one batch!)
6. Pour about 1/3 cup or 1/4 cup (I personally prefer making smaller pancakes, but larger ones are fun too!) of batter into the pan.
7. Flip pancakes once they start to bubble.
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| In honour of St-Jean today, I chose to make mine with raspberries and Québec's own maple syrup! (The only reason there's no maple syrup on this picture is because I thought it looked prettier without... Also, I don't want everyone to find out what my regular sugar intake is... :P) |
This recipe makes: about 8-12 small or medium pancakes.
That's all for today, folks. I hope you enjoyed this week's instalment of Big Time Baking! Joyeuse St-Jean Baptiste!
See you next time,
-Alexe ✿
