Pancakes

Makes
10–12 pancakes
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Ingredients

  • 1½ cupsFlour
  • 3 tspBaking powder
  • 3 tbspMelted butter or vegetable oil
  • ½ tspSalt
  • 1Egg
  • 1¼ cupsMilk
  • 1/3 tspVanilla
  • 3 tbspSugar

Method

  1. Step 1. Stir. Stir flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together.
  2. Step 2. Beat. Beat egg thoroughly and add milk. Stir.
  3. Step 3. Add. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, slowly add the egg-milk mixture.
  4. Step 4. Stir. Add melted butter (or vegetable oil) and vanilla. Stir quickly until ingredients are just mixed and batter is still lumpy in appearance.
  5. Step 5. Cook. Drop by ¼ cupfuls on a hot griddle or frying pan. Cook until the up side is filled with bubbles and the underside is golden brown. Then flip over and cook until brown on the underside.

Notes

  • Serve: spread with butter/margarine and pour syrup over pancakes.
  • Eat with: sausages, eggs, bacon or alone.

Added October 30, 2026

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