1-2-3 Pancake/Waffle mix

I’m always surprised when people buy e-made pancake mix when scratch pancakes are so easy and taste so much better! If you happen to have milk gone sour, that’s the time to plan for pancakes or waffles. The sour milk makes them even lighter and fluffier and you don’t taste the sour milk at all.

The recipe that our family has used for years is called 1-2-3 Pancakes. We call it that for the measurements of the dry ingredients. Mac usually makes the pancakes or waffles whenever guests are here for breakfast, so he always has a pail of pre-mixed pancake/waffle mix ready to just scoop out as needed.

The Sprouts even use this recipe for when they have overnight camps.  One year they had a fundraiser where they mixed up the dry mix and sold it in big zipper bags as “Sprouts Secret Recipe Pancake and Waffle Mix” with instruction on the label taped to the bag. As I recall, they did pretty good with that one.

Anyway, the recipe is easy and like I said, Mac usually makes up a big pail of it at a time and then when he’s making breakfast, he just scoops out the dry mix he needs and adds the wet.

1-2-3 DRY

PANCAKE / WAFFLE MIX

1 cup of flour

2 tsp baking powder

3 tablespoons sugar

Multiply the ingredients as many times as you want and mix the ingredients well to make a large amount of dry mix.

1-2-3 PANCAKES

or WAFFLES

1 cup of dry mix for each person you are serving

1 egg for each person you are serving

3/4 cup of sweet or sour milk

1/2 tsp vanilla (optional)

Mix together until all the dry is all mixed, but don’t overstir. Batter should be very thick.

For pancakes, preheat a greased griddle and drop spoonfuls of batter on the hot grill. Flip when the bubbles of the pancakes start to break and the edges are dry. This makes a nice thick fluffy pancake, so you may have to leave it on the griddle a bit longer in order to make sure the centre cooks thoroughly. (You can make the batter thinner if you want, but your pancakes will also be thinner.)

If you are cooking waffles, you need the batter to be thick. Put a spoonful of batter in the middle of your waffle maker, but take care not to fill it completely. The batter will rise as its cooking and will spill out the edges if you put too much on.

We like to serve with fruit and whipped cream for a really special breakfast treat.