Sourdough pancakes
Jan 23 ’06
A good friend of ours just came up from L.A. to visit over the weekend, and as a special treat I thought I would make a tasty breakfast Sunday morning. I gave our guest some choices, and she settled on pancakes. My current favorite is a recipe for some very, very thick and solid yeast-risen sourdough pancakes. I've been growing the starter for a little over a month, and I have to say that it's very good and getting better. If you make pancakes regularly, you have to make the sourdough starter once, and then just refresh when you make 'em. The recipe these came from is called "Ventry Sourdough Pancakes," from Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid's Home Baking, which is a pretty good book about baking traditions from around the world. In any case, the pancakes from this recipe come out easily a half inch thick, and absorb maple syrup like nobody's business. The sourdough isn't overpowering, and provides a subtle alternative to buttermilk; the yeastiness of them is fantastic. Read the rest …
