Pancakes
rule the world. They're forgiving, easy, and need 7 ingredients, nearly
all of which you almost certainly have.
If you've ever baked cookies
in your kitchen, you're golden.
And the recipe is memorization friendly
because nearly all the measurements start with ONE:
1 C flour
1 T sugar
1 t baking soda
1 pinch salt
1 C milk
1 egg
2 T vegetable oil
That's it. Then you mix in whatever you feel like. Today, I went with a
liberal sprinkling of cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and nutmeg, a splash
of vanilla, and a handful of frozen blueberries, picked in a nearby town at the height of Maine's blueberry season.
Other times, I've tossed in canned blueberries (God bless Trader Joe's, whose canned wild blueberries survived shipping to the third world!), chocolate chips, banana slices, dried cranberries, fresh raspberries, strawberry chunks... When I say pancakes are forgiving, I mean it. They're pretty much impossible to mess up.
When I served in the Peace Corps, I made these every time I had breakfast company. Milk was hard to come by in my village, so 99% of the time I made it with powdered milk. Tastes just fine.
The recipe makes 5-10
pancakes, depending entirely on how big you make them. When I'm at the
griddle, this recipe always produces 7 pancakes.
7 ingredients. 7 pancakes.
Serve with Maine maple syrup for a truly delumptious breakfast.
