Good morning!
I hope you have a relaxing weekend planned.
I want to share a breakfast recipe that you are sure to love!
My Favorite Homemade Pancakes
Here's what you'll need...
1 Cup of Self Rising Flour
1 Tablespoon of Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon of Baking soda
1/2 Teaspoon of Salt
3 Tablespoons of Sugar
2 Tablespoons of Oil
1 Egg
1 Cup of Buttermilk
and
some Butter for your griddle
You'll need to start with your dry ingredients.
Mix your flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar in a bowl.
Now, add in your oil, egg and buttermilk.
Mix only enough to have a wet pancake batter. Don't over-mix!!
A few lumps in the batter is a good thing!
Here's how your batter should look...
Now, you're ready to make your pancakes!
I LOVE my griddle!
There are a few things that I only cook on the griddle and pancakes is one of those things!
I heat my griddle to a medium-high heat.
*Not too hot, or your pancakes will burn!
I take a stick of butter and rub the entire face of the griddle with a good coating of butter.
Your butter should sizzle as you apply a generous amount on the griddle.
Then, I use a measuring cup to scoop out equal measures of pancake batter onto the hot griddle like this...
When you start to see bubbles "popping", you know that it's time to turn your pancakes!
You only turn them once :)
That's it!
You've just made "My Favorite Homemade Pancakes"!!
You're family will love you for it!!
Now that we've made homemade pancakes, let's talk syrup!
We were able to visit Vermont recently and we learned all about how maple syrup is harvested!
I loved learning this and I thought I'd share it with you!
We visited The Bragg Family Sugarhouse and Farm in Montpelier, Vermont.
Maple syrup farmers start by drilling a hole into a mature maple tree. The tree must be 30-40 years old before it is large enough to harvest sap from it. This procedure is called "tapping". Once the hole is made in the tree, they attach a spout into the hole for the sap to exit from the spout and into a bucket that they hang from the spout. Here's a picture of some of the old fashioned spouts and drills that have been used by the Bragg family in years past...
The farmer can tap a 10 inch tree only once, while an 18 inch tree can be tapped twice in a year. A new hole is drilled every year. The freezing temperatures of the area causes the sap inside the tree to freeze inside of the tree. When the temperatures warm up this causes the sap to thaw and release through the spout. Ideal temperatures are 20 degree nights and 40 degree days. It takes approximately 40 gallons of sap to equal 1 gallon of maple syrup!! That's why 100% Real Maple Syrup is more expensive.
After the sap is collected from the buckets, the farmer takes it and puts it in a huge trough, where it is heated in order to remove the excess water. Syrup boils at 219 degrees! The sap looks like water before it's boiled, but once the extra water is removed, it looks like the maple syrup that you and I are used to seeing.
After sampling the 100% real maple syrup here, we may never be able to enjoy our regular syrup from the grocery store again!
In our opinion, there's no better tasting syrup than this! <3
I hope you will enjoy your weekend and these pancakes as much as we do! XO
~ Psalm 119:97 "O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day." (KJV)
