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Fluffy Homemade Pancakes Recipe Guide

This document provides a guide on how to make fluffy homemade pancakes, emphasizing the importance of using fresh ingredients, not over-stirring the batter, and allowing it to rest. It includes a simple recipe with specific measurements and steps for preparation. Additionally, it shares five historical facts about pancakes, highlighting their ancient origins and cultural significance.

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Fluffy Homemade Pancakes Recipe Guide

This document provides a guide on how to make fluffy homemade pancakes, emphasizing the importance of using fresh ingredients, not over-stirring the batter, and allowing it to rest. It includes a simple recipe with specific measurements and steps for preparation. Additionally, it shares five historical facts about pancakes, highlighting their ancient origins and cultural significance.

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How to Make Fluffy Homemade

Pancakes
Use fresh ingredients. Check your flour and
baking powder to make sure they haven't expired
or gone rancid.

Don't over-stir. When combining your wet and


dry ingredients, stir only until you no longer see
any dry spots of flour. Over-stirring will make
pancakes tougher and less fluffy (which happens
when leaveners release bubbles).

Let batter rest. Resting about 10 minutes allows


the leaveners to continue to work their magic,
creating and expanding into thousands of tiny
pockets of carbon dioxide. The fluffier the batter,
the fluffier the pancakes.

Start with a hot surface. Allow your skillet or


griddle or even pancke maker to fully heat up
before you add batter.(wait until 5 minutes to heat
it up)

Make a test pancake. This is your practice run


to gauge and adjust the temperature and cook
time. Peek frequently at the underside to check if
the pancake is browning at the right pace.

Don't press the pancakes. It's tempting to


press down on the pancakes with a spatula after
flipping, but this will result in a dense, gummy
pancake.

Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

3 vegetable oil

1 large egg

Directions:

1st Gather your ingredients

2nd Mix dry ingredients: In a small bowl,


whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder,
and salt; set aside.

3rd Mix wet ingredients: In a medium bowl,


whisk together water oil and egg.

4th Combine wet and dry ingredients: Add


dry ingredients to milk mixture; whisk until
just moistened. (Do not overmix; a few
small lumps are fine.)
5 historical facts about pancakes

1. The oldest written record we have of


pancakes is from ancient Greece. Around
600 BC, an ancient Greek poet described
pancakes in writing. There is also
evidence that suggests the ancient
Romans had pancakes. Among these two
groups, pancakes were usually made of
flour, honey, and olive oil.

2. Pancakes were Ötzi the Iceman’s last


meal. In 1991, the body of a man who
lived between 3350 and 3105 BC was
discovered, and researchers found
evidence of a pancake-like food in his
stomach.

3. Pancake Day and Shrove Tuesday fall on


the same day. Because Shrove Tuesday
is the day to feast before the start of
Lent, it is a tradition in many cultures
(such as in the UK and Ireland) to make
pancakes in order to use up dairy
products.

4. The term “pancake” has been around for


hundreds of years. “Pancake” is a Middle
English word that appeared in the 1400s.
It later became the standard term in
America in the 1800s.

5. Many cultures have their own versions of


pancakes. From French crêpes and Dutch
pannenkoek to Chinese cong you bing,
there are so many kinds of pancakes all
over the world.

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