Pete's Scratch Pancakes

It was the Fall of 1987 when Pete Nyhus walked into our office, just to visit. We started talking about breakfast, and he reached into a wastepaper basket and pulled out a scrap of teletype paper. He wrote out this recipe, and my family has never used pre-mix since. Show more

Ready In: 20 mins

Yields: 9 6 inch pancakes

Ingredients

  • 2  cups flour
  • 3  tablespoons sugar
  • 12 teaspoon salt
  • 1  tablespoon baking powder
  • 2  eggs, beat them separately before adding to mixture
  • 14 cup butter, melted (1/8 of a pound)
  • 1 34 cups milk
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Directions

  1. Mix the dry items first.
  2. Combine the eggs and melted butter to the milk and slowly stir into the flour mixture.
  3. Heat the griddle to325 F or the pan to medium high let sit at least 10 minutes while heating the griddle orpan.
  4. These will be high, but light and fluffy -- .
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