Sunday Brunch: Loretta's Buttermilk Pancakes
All right now, it's Sunday, three days after you've stuffed yourself with turkey and stuffing. I figure you're pretty sick and tired of Thanksgiving leftovers, so for Sunday Brunch I've plucked (ha, ha) a great pancake recipe from Tom Douglas' Seattle Kitchen, the first cookbook book written by that great Seattle chef and restaurateur.
These pancakes are named after Tom's lovely daughter Loretta. I love the little bit of tartness the buttermilk adds to these pancakes. These pancakes are light, delicious, and have that crunchy-on-the-outside, tender-on-the-inside qualities that great pancakes should have.
Tom would have serious eaters serve these pancakes with fresh blackberries, which are wonderful when in season (not now, unfortunately, in most parts of the world), but maple syrup and butter do just fine in the meantime.
Loretta's Buttermilk Pancakes
- serves 6 -
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 large eggs
3 1/2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted, plus more for serving
Pure maple syrup
Procedure
1. In a bowl sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and baking powder .
2. In another bowl combine the eggs and buttermilk, then add the melted butter. Gradually add the wet mixture to the dry mixture, stirring with a wooden spoon until just smooth.
3. Drop the batter. by the 1/4 cupful and cook until full of bubbles and the bottom side is golden (lift the pancake with a spatula to check the bottom), 2 to 3 minutes. Flip and cook the other side, about 1 minute
4. Serve these puppies with the maple syrup and butter.
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3 Comments:
Can we assume, from the procedure, that the second listing for baking soda (1 teaspoon) in the ingredients is actually baking powder?
Rhetor at 10:13AM on 11/30/08
yes, Rhetor, the ingredient to be used is baking powder. It's incorrectly listed in the ingredient list in the book as baking soda. My apologies for not catching it.
Ed Levine at 12:16PM on 11/30/08
I usually have frozen blackberries (frozen from fresh) all year, and i steep the maple syrup with cinnamon and the berries... its not bad at all.
seikel at 10:08AM on 12/01/08