Banana Pancakes

The recipe said three ingredients: bananas, eggs, and whole wheat flour. The young miss had some overripe fruit on the kitchen shelf, so I thought I could put it to use. I did expand the three to seven: pinch of salt, a bit of baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg. The last two were her suggestions even though I had already stirred them into the mix.

Medium heat singed the first one. Low heat seemed to work best for a nice medium browning. Minimum flour was good too.

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Todd lives in Minnesota, serving a Catholic parish as a lay minister.
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5 Responses to Banana Pancakes

  1. liam0781 says:

    In case an old-fashioned recipe is of interest:

    Yeast-Raised Buckwheat Pancakes

    1 envelope active dry yeast

    1 teaspoon fine non-iodized salt (or 2 tsp Diamond kosher salt or 1 ½ tsp Morton’s kosher salt)

    4 cups slightly warm water

    2 teaspoons sugar

    3 cups buckwheat flour

    1 cup water, plus more as desired for thinner pancakes

    ½ teaspoon double-acting baking powder (very preferably aluminum-free; preferably, Argo or Bob’s Red Mill, both of which use sodium acid pyrophosphate (SAP), a superior leavener)

    ½ teaspoon baking soda

    Combine the yeast and salt in bowl. Stir in water until yeast is dissolved. Let stand 5 minutes. Mix in sugar, then gradually stir in buckwheat flour to make a stiff batter. Cover and put in refrigerator to rise overnight.

    Before cooking, dissolve sugar, baking powder and baking soda in 1 cup water. Stir this mixture into the leavened batter. For thinner pancakes, add additional water as desired. Cook on a griddle or in iron skillet. Serve on warmed plates, and garnish with butter, syrup*, jam and/or fruit as desired.

    *     If fruit syrup is preferred to maple syrup: the easiest way to make a fruit syrup is to put some jelly or jam (the flavor possibilities are vast) in a small bowl and add hot water by half teaspoon at a time until it reaches your desired viscosity.

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