First, you have to turn your buckwheat groats into flour:
Don't they look good?
They were!Fluffy Buckwheat Pancakes
From The Pancake Handbook, Ten Speed Press
½ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup buckwheat flour
1½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
1½ teaspoons sugar
½ teaspoon salt
1 egg, separated
1 cup buttermilk
¼ cup water
2 tablespoons butter, melted
In a large bowl, combine the all-purpose flour, buckwheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt. In a separate bowl, combine the egg yolk, buttermilk, water, and butter. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients all at once, stirring just to blend. In a small bowl, beat the egg white with a whisk until it forms soft peaks. Gently fold the egg whites into the batter.
Heat a lightly oiled griddle or heavy skillet over medium-high heat (375°F on an electric griddle). Portion ¼-cup measures of batter onto the hot griddle, spacing them apart. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, until bubbles cover the surface of the pancakes, and their undersides are lightly browned. Gently turn them over and cook for about 2 minutes more, until the other sides are browned.
Usually, Jerry don't need no stinkin' recipe for pancakes. His pancakes are great and aren't quite this complicated.
By the way, we used recently milled whole wheat flour instead of all-purpose. They were good and better for us to boot!
3 comments:
Hi, Chuckbert--I see you have the attachment to a KitchenAid; so do we. I notice that the flour is a lot coarser than the stuff you get in the grocery store. Do you mix your freshly ground flour with all-purpose flour in other recipes, too? I made whole wheat bread with freshly ground flour, and it was very tasty, but very dense.
Peggers
Nope, "anonymous" wasn't me (I) this time!
Pegbert! Hello!
We've made bread from just our own wheat flour and the bread didn't seem terribly dense. It seems to have shrunk while it was baking. I could have sworn that it was much higher above the top of the pan than when it was done.
So far we haven't mixed our flour with commercially ground stuff and things are turning out pretty good.
We haven't had it very long. We got it just before a rebate period was expiring at the end of the year so we haven't done a lot with it yet.
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