2 Eggs
2 ts Baking powder
2 tb Margarine or butter —
Melted
4 tb Sugar
2 c Milk
1/2 ts Salt
2 c Flour
Grease the griddle very, very lightly with vegetable oil, margarine, or
butter. (If your griddle has a nonstick coating, don’t grease it.) Preheat
griddle to 400~F. Beat eggs, shortening, and milk in a large bowl until
well blended. Add flour, baking powder, sugar and salt to liquid
ingredients, and mix just enough to make a creamy batter with some lumps.
Spoon or ladle batter onto hot griddle. Turn pancakes over when edges look
dry and bubbles cover the top. Our homemade pancakes were moist and light,
golden brown in color. Eggs dominated the flavor and aroma, but the
pancakes had a touch of sweetness. We’d rate them very good. When we made
them substituting buttermilk for regular milk, we thought they were just
about perfect. If you substitute vegetable oil for margarine or butter,
you’ll get less saturated fat–but the pancakes won’t brown as much. If the
tops of the pancakes bubble and bottoms don’t brown, the heat
Yields
18 Servings
