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Saturday, January 7, 2006 - My Very Own Sourdough Pancake Recipe

Since I'm just getting started on this "sourdough odyssey", I feel a little underqualified to be giving anyone advice about it! But, I can tell you where I succeeded and where I failed during my experimentation. Also: I didn't create my own starter. It was given to me by someone who is barely an acquaintance. So I can't really give any input on starting your own starter.

A friend of mine also got some of the same starter, and she is using freshly milled wheat flour to feed it, and her pancakes turned out thick and heavy (I found out about this before I did my pancakes, so it helped me figure out how to 'craft' my recipe). I've been feeding mine with King Arthur bread flour. Bread flour is high in gluten, so I think that makes a big difference.

The night before I made the pancakes, I set out about 2 cups of starter (it was in the fridge), and fed it with 2/3 c. bread flour and 1/2 c. water (filtered), then let it set overnight on the counter. The next morning I mixed the starter with these ingredients:

2 eggs (room temp.)
1 tsp. baking soda mixed in 1 Tbsp. warm water (next time I will decrease the baking soda)
1/2 tsp. salt
3 Tbsp. butter, melted

My plan was to add milk if the batter was too thick, but it didn't need it. The only problem was, I could barely detect a baking soda taste (it wasn't too bad, though), and would probably go down to 1/2 tsp. baking soda next time.

I found some internet recipes that said you could just use the starter by itself to make pancakes! But I really wanted the eggs and the fat in there (butter is my friend)! The pancakes were very light in weight and color (previously I had been making whole wheat pancakes, so we weren't used to the light color).

These pancakes were so good! And also (Kay in PA), I cooked them on my cast-iron griddle.

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Saturday, January 7, 2006 - Good for you!!!! (Cast Iron)

Posted by kayinpa

I will have to try your recipe once I get my sourdough starter going! :)

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