Basic Pancake Mix

By Laurence Beeken

Our basic pancake batter makes 10 pancakes - just right to try all our lovely sweet and savoury fillings!

Ingredients

• 4oz/112g Plain Flour
• 2 Med Eggs
• 7fl oz/210 ml Semi Skimmed Milk
• 3fl oz/90 ml Water
• 20 sprays low cal Olive Oil Spray

Method

Combine the milk and water then sift the flour into a bowl. Make a hole in the middle and break the eggs into, whisk it.Gradually add the milk and water mixture, still whisking untill all of them added and form a smooth batter.
Heat the pan measure 2 tbsp of batter into a ladle ready for making your first pancake.Beware of the heat, once the pan is hot, reduce heat to medium.Spray pan with 2 spray of oil per pancake.Turn the pancake when it get some bubbles and cook the second side for few seconds.
and enjoy your pancake.
:)

My homemade pancake mix

This is a homemade pancake recipe with uncomplicated ingredients, but tasty. Key factors would be the baking powder.Beacuse this little recipe use 2 teaspoons baking powder that make them soft and tasty.

Ingredients:

1 cup of wheat flour
1 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoon Baking powder
¼  teaspoon Salt. 

1 Egg

1 cup milk.
2 spoons vegetable oil or olive oil.

This isn't  sweet  because we will add it when finished with Maple Syrup or honey

How to make it

• Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, mix well.
• Add eggs,milk and oil into the flour and stir until the flour quite thick
• Heat the griddle and spoon the pancake flour into pan.wait few minutes or until you can see some bubbles on the pancake surface.Turn and wait for golden pancake.

Homemade Pancake Mix

Homemade Pancake Mix

By  Jan from http://mixingbowlkids.typepad.com/family_bites/2010/02/breakfast-as-we-all-know-is-the-most-important-meal-of-the-day-it-jumps-starts-our-metabolism-and-provides-our-brains-with.html

Breakfast, as we all know, is the most important meal of the day.  It jumps-starts our metabolism and provides our brains with the nutrients we need to work and think throughout the day.  Unfortunately for me, it's my least favourite meal to make, and one I often find myself overlooking in the hustle and bustle of the morning.  For me, that is, not the boys, who always clamor down the stairs bright and early in search of food.  I also find it to be the meal for which I have the least amount of culinary creativity.  Sleep seems to remove all creative thoughts from my mind and I stumble down the stairs in the morning not feeling eager to fashion some food.
Enter my "pancake-mix-in-a-jar" idea.  I love to keep one of these jars of homemade fluffy pancake mix on hand, which, in a pinch, allows me to put together a hot breakfast with ease and speed.  All of the dry ingredients are combined in a glass container and stored in the fridge.  I get three mornings worth of pancakes with this recipe, and all I need to do in the morning is measure out the mixture and add a few wet ingredients.  My kind of simple morning food. 

Now, let's talk about the pancakes themselves.  I love these for their rich flavour and hearty taste.  Toasted oats bring a golden hue and nice crunch to the mixture and the ground flax meal offers a nice splatter of texture throughout.  Adapted by adding chocolate chips, fresh blueberries or crunchy nuts to the bowl, you can create an entire colour palette by customizing the base ingredients.
Seeing that today is Pancake Tuesday we made these for breakfast, of course.  For some variety I added handful of granola to the bowl before pouring in the wet ingredients.  This was met with complete unhappiness from Jackson, total indifference from Ben and loving praise from Rob. 
Ah, you've got to love mornings!

Homemade Whole Wheat Pancake Mix (in a jar)

1 cup rolled oats

1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour

1/4 cup ground flax seed

3 tbsp brown sugar

4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp cinnamon

• Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees.  Place the oats on a cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven, set aside and allow to cool.
• Combine all ingredients, including cooled oats, in a bowl and mix well.  Store mix in refrigerator for 2 weeks, or the freezer for 3 months.

To make pancakes:

•  In a small mixing bowl whisk together 1 egg, 1 tbsp olive oil, 3/4 cup milk and 1 tsp vanilla.  Stir in 1 cup of the homemade pancake mix.  Let mixture stand for 2 minutes.
• In a non-stick pan set over medium high heat, drizzle a small amount of olive oil to coat the pan. Using a 1/4 cup measure, pour the batter into the pan.  Cook for approx. three minutes or until bubbles break the surface.
• Turn the pancakes with a spatula and cook until the bottom is slightly browned.  Repeat with remaining batter until all of the pancakes are cooked.