Puff Pancakes

Puff Pancakes
1 Tablespoon butter
1/2 C Milk
1/2 C Flour
2 Eggs
1/2 tsp Vanilla
dash of Salt
dash of Cinnamon

1. Melt butter in pan in oven while it is preheating.
2. Whisk all ingredients together in bowl, pour into pan w/ melted butter and move to oven.
3. Bake at 425 degrees for 10 - 12 minutes or until the pancake has risen and is firm.

Serve right away (it will start to puff down, that's ok) with fruit, syrup, powdered sugar... whatever you want!

*we always double it so we each get our own.
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Whole Wheat Blueberry Pancakes

1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon common granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons oil
frozen blueberries (however much you want)

additional oil for frying

Oil a frying pan or griddle. Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in one bowl. In another bowl, beat the egg, then add the milk and the 2 tablespoons of oil. Mix the dry and wet ingredients together, well enough to eliminate dry spots but no more. Add frozen blueberries to the batter and gently mix.

Heat the frying pan to medium temperature. Pour a pancake. The pancake will bubble. When the bubbling settles down and the edges are slightly dry, flip the pancake. When the pancake looks done, remove it and start another one.

Serve with syrup and butter, although it does taste pretty good by itself.

Buttermilk Breakfast

Rachel Zackrison's buttermilk waffle recipe has become a hit at our home. They can be made into waffles or pancakes.
2 c. flour

2 T. sugar

2 t. baking powder

1/2 t. salt

1 t. baking soda

2 c. buttermilk

1/2 c. milk

2 eggs

1/4 c. butter, melted (i think they're a bit greasy, so I cut back a smidgen on the butter here)

Combine the dry ingredients. Combine the wet ingredients. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir together until moist. It'll still be thick and a little lumpy. Let the batter rest for 10 minutes giving the buttermilk and baking soda time to mix and react. It'll be a little bubbly and frothy when the time is up.

A delicious syrup to top 'em is:
1 c sugar

½ buttermilk

¼ c butter

½ tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

Heat sugar, buttermilk, and butter to a boil. Boil 1 minute. Remove from heat. Add vanilla and baking soda (it will foam up then calm down). Stir well.

But on Saturday, we all had our choice of toppings, as we are working on cleaning out the fridge before we move next week. Daddy prefers good ol' maple, James loves the buttermilk and Sissy is a girl after my own heart: strawberries 'n whipped cream. Anna takes what she can get and gobbles it down. Yummm.

Oatmeal pancakes

My kids devour these pancakes and I love how healthy they are.

4 egg whites
3 T oil
3 c. buttermilk
1 t salt
1 t baking soda
1 T baking powder
1 1/2 c. flour
1 1/2 c. oats

#1 Beat egg whites in mixing bowl
#2 mix in oil and buttermilk
#3 add next four dry ingredients
#4 stir in oatmeal in the end - I use a hand mixer to do all the mixing
#5 bake on hot griddle *oats seem to sink to bottom of batter so I scoop deep in mixing bowl when ladling out batter onto griddle.