This fantastic sourdough pancakes recipe is a good way to use some of your extra sourdough starter.

You could not ask for an easier pancake recipe, and the pancakes end up cooked so light that they “melt in your mouth.” My family loves these pancakes, and it has become a tradition to make them when they come to visit.

During the Klondike gold rush of 1898, it was said that a real “Alaskan Sourdough” would just as soon spend a year in the hills without his rifle, as to tough it through without his bubbling sourdough pot! Since food was scarce, food provisions were more valuable than gold. In extreme cold, miners would put the dough ball under their clothes, next to their skin, or tuck it into their bedroll with them at night, anything to keep the sourdough alive.

I adapted this fantastic sourdough pancakes recipe from the wonderful sourdough cookbook called “Alaska Sourdough” by Ruth Allman.