American buttermilk pancakes
American pancakes are much thicker than ours and are traditionally served with maple syrup. You can opt for maple syrup, honey, golden syrup or a lovely fruit compote.
Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 150g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 pinch bicarbonate of soda
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 200ml buttermilk
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 3 tablespoons butter for frying
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:20min ›
Ready in:30min
- Mix plain flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and then mix in the egg, butter, buttermilk, sugar and salt to a smooth batter.
- Heat the butter in a large nonstick frying pan over medium high heat, ladling in approximately 60ml of batter for 4 small pancakes. Reduce heat to medium and fry for a couple of minutes until you notice bubbles on the surface and the edges are cooked. Flip pancakes over to cook on the other side for another couple of minutes.
- Serve with maple syrup and butter if desired.
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Reviews in English (14)
Something else. added 50grams of blueberrys to half of recipe. - 07 Aug 2010
halved the recipe because it was just me. loved them, no after tast like I get with my old recipe. only problen is, have to think of making in advance because of buying the buttermilk - 07 Aug 2010
- 20 Nov 2012