Recipe: Scratch Pancakes

While Creekside Farm is not going to be a "certified organic" farm, it is very much going to be a farm concerned with providing "clean" food. Clean food is that which has few downsides to eating. Most of the pancake and biscuit mixes on the market today are made with GMO (genetically modified organism) flours. The grains used in GMO flours are usually sprayed with herbicides to aid in producing larger yields. Some farmers engage in the practice of juicing up their yields by spraying herbicide directly only the grains a few day before harvest. This means that some of this toxic stuff makes it into the flour, where you ingest it, and then kills you slowly or just makes you feel like you are gluten intolerant.

This recipe relies on non-GMO flour, like Bob's Red Mill or King Arthur's (which is what I use), but is otherwise just a good simple recipe for making a good simple food.  On a plate with butter and syrup, or some of our good canned fruit preserves, and you have a fine meal which will not leave you feeling a bit sick to your stomach.

And these are lighter and fluffier too....

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Pancakes

Whisk in a bowl and set aside:

• 1 1/2 cups of flour
• 3 tablespoons sugar (C&H is still clean)
• 1 tablespoon baking powder .   

In a separate bowl whisk:

• 1 1/4 cups of organic milk
• If you think you have developed a lactose intolerance, you might consider that the same stuff they spray on wheat, they spray on corn, and then feed the corn silage to the cows that make the milk. These herbicides are everywhere in the cheap food chain. Organic meat, milk, and grains make your food better and absolutely more healthy to eat.
• 1/4 cup (or 1/2 stick) of melted butter (organic is nice),
• 2 eggs
• Cage free or pasture raised eggs are generally better. Organic eggs are chickens fed on grains which are clean of herbicides generally.  
• Dash of vanilla

Then whisk the wet into the dry flour mixture.
Ladle onto a pre-heated (medium heat) and slightly buttered, non-stick skillet and cook till half of the bubbles that emerge break. Flip and cook until the steam stops (this is usually a sure sign of the cooking process stopping, and the burning process beginning). Stack them up onto a dish covered with a linen napkin until served.

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I like to serve a wedge, cut from the larger stack, to each person. It is prettier, takes up less space, and allows either a smaller plate or more breakfast goodies (like bacon). Simple butter and Maple syrup is best (maybe with a dash of molasses stirred in), but these are particularly good with masticated  fresh berries and whipped cream. . .