Or, how to have a reasonably quick gourmet healthy breakfast, even on a Sunday morning; or, what the makers of Bisquick don't want you to know.
I love this cookbook. I haven't used it a lot, because I haven't been cooking anything recently (like, in the last six months) that can't be slapped together with whatever I have on hand (which tends to be, in the last six weeks, almost nothing). But I really love it.
It has a recipe for pancake mix that is simplicity itself. (That did not prevent me from tinkering with it, though):
3 1/2 cups rolled oats, ground in a food processor or blender
4 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup white flour
3 tbl sugar (which I omitted)
3 tbl baking powder
1 tbl salt
1 tbl baking soda
You mix all these together in your handy
Bosch Universal Kitchen Machine workbowl (or I suppose you could use some other mixer, or even a regular bowl with a hand mixer). Using either the cookie paddles or the regular beaters, blend in, in a steady drizzle:
3/4 c vegetable oil (which I blended half and half with not-quite-melted butter)
It'll look sorta like clumpy Bisquick. You should be able to squeeze a handful of it and have it mostly stay together. Store in the freezer.
Isn't that nice? Doesn't it make you feel healthy? Oats for your cholesterol count, whole wheat for the fiber and most of your basic mineral needs, omitting that sugar because sugar is from the devil, all that good stuff? And you can mix it up when you have time, and have it on hand for forever. I made mine two months ago and promptly forgot about it, until this morning, when the cupboard was . . . well, anyway, isn't that nice?!
And then the actual pancake part is even better:
1 cup mix
1 cup buttermilk
1 egg
1 tbl liquid sweetener. (It calls for orange juice, but since I omitted the sugar, we needed a little more sweet than that--you can go with juice concentrate,
real maple syrup, or honey.)
One, one, one, one. Easy to remember!
Mix, let sit for 15 minutes, and then make pancakes as per usual. They're very tasty.
I actually went wild this morning and added thinly sliced bananas and toasted pecans to the batter. I'm hoping that Stephen and Isaac will remember this breakfast during the long drought which will pretty much start this afternoon.
Sunday Question of the Day:
How do you like your pancakes?
Comments (4)
Oh! What a fantastic idea! I love this cookbook too, but I haven't seen this recipe. I love the storing it in the freezer 'till I'm ready part.
Thanks!
with fresh strawberries & maple syrup. and with someone else having cooked them and done the washing up.
My mom has that cookbook, and she likes it too. The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion is one of my personal favorites. My crew doesn't care for whole wheat, unfortunately.