Sally Reed’s Best Pancake Recipe

My mother gave me this simple recipe for from-scratch pancakes that’s the best I’ve had. I have no doubt that she found it in an old cookbook decades ago.  It’s best served with butter and maple syrup.

Ingredients

  1. 1.25 flour
  2. 2.5 teaspoons baking powder
  3. 2 tablespoons sugar
  4. .75 teaspoon salt
  5. 1 egg
  6. 1.25 cups milk (1 cup for thick pancakes)
  7. 3 tablespoons butter
  8. Canola cooking oil

Instructions

  1. Mix dry ingredients.
  2. Mix wet ingredients.
  3. Melt butter and mix in with wet ingredients.
  4. Add wet to dry and mix.
  5. Add a tablespoon of cooking oil to a griddle or wide frying pan and heat until drops of water dance and quickly evaporate.
  6. Place 2 heaping tablespoons of batter for each pancake. Allow room for the batter to spread.
  7. After 3-4 minutes or until the pancake bubbles, flip.
  8. After 3 minutes, check that the pancakes are uniformly golden brown, and move the pancakes to a plate
  9. Start the next batch until you’re out of batter.

Serve these delicious pancakes with butter and maple syrup. They’ll keep for a few days in the fridge or you can freeze to microwave later.