Abstract:

I gotta address this up front: A good stack of pancakes shouldn't be about what's loaded on top or mixed in to the batter as much as it should be about the pancake itself. Any joker with a bag of chocolate chips and a jar of sprinkles can make a box mix palatable; so since when did breakfast (and usually dinner at our house) become an excuse to eat dessert? Pancakes from scratch are a simple luxury that every family should be able to enjoy, and lately the recipe that I've been whisking up at our house is a honey and whole wheat variant of the buttermilk silver dollar recipe that fueled my family growing up for many a Sunday. Give these a go and see if the box mix doesn't become a distant memory.

Purpose:

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As it happens when you seem to always talk food with the people you meet, there comes a time when the topic of "pancakes" comes up. This discussion invariably ends with the person I'm talking to saying something how just about every flapjack they've ever made at home comes courtesy of a box mix.



It's at this point that you might as well be speaking to this white boy in Chinese.



You see, I grew up in a household where pancakes were always, always made from scratch; and I simply don't understand how anyone can get any breakfast food satisfaction from a box. With the partially hydrogenated fat suspended in perpetuity betwixt the starch granules, it's doubtful that the mix ever had any chance at tasting fresh; and anyhow, the resultant hotcakes always seem either to fall apart at the first sign of syrup, or have the texture of something you'd expect to see while Mrs. Douglas delivers the punchline on Green Acres. Every variant on a pancake I've ever made can be traced back to a recipe that my mother clipped off the back of a bag of Gold Medal Flower many moons ago. I've hunted around on their website for the purposes of proper citation, and I simply can't find it. This blows my mind because the unfettered recipe is so damn perfect as far as a basic pancake goes that I simply can't understand why they wouldn't wanna showcase it. Credit to the source aside, I've made enough minor changes that I'm taking ownership of it; and it's starting with this honey and whole wheat variant.