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On this episode of Laura In The Kitchen

I'm gonna show you how to make basic pancakes

Now, It is absolutely absurd that I have not made an

episode on this already, I mean what was I thinking?

I've been going.. I've been doing this for 2 years

And not made a simple plain pancake recipe

And it didn't even dawn on me like

just recently I thought

All these requests are coming in I must not have an

episode up already

so I did it and I apologize for that

And I have gotten just so many requests to make basic pancakes

So, I figured: It is one of the most- it's one of the easiest recipes you'll ever make

and this is my recipe that I've been using for years and years and years

and when you see how easy it is to make, you'll never want to go back to the boxed stuff

So, of course, before we get started, let's go over the ingredients

You're gonna need some

all purpose flour

some whole milk

egg

baking powder

sugar

salt

and a little bit of butter

Those are your crazy ingredients! Can you believe it?

Now, the method to pancakes, my method

anyway, Is the "one" method. It's one of everything. So, it's a cup of flour, a cup of milk,

a teaspon of baking soda, a tablespoon of sugar*, a teaspoon of salt, and an egg.

That's it! And you wanna use a little bit of butter to cook them in

But just by using the "one one one one" ratio, perfect pancakes every single time!

So, if you wanna double this, it's two cups of flour, two cups of milk, two eggs, two so and so and so

Get what I'm saying? It couldn't be easier!

So in this bowl I'm going to mix all my ingredients: add my flour, add my milk -

And you can used skimmed milk for this, perfectly fine. Whatever you have on hand.

Egg, baking powder, sugar. And I do put a little bit of sugar in my recipe, which I know is a little bit different,

but I feel like it needs just a tiny bit of sweetness, you know? So, I do it and it works for me

And you don't wanna overmix this: A lumpy batter is a good batter. It's gonna be really fluffy and delicious

If you overbeat this is gonna be really dense and heavy. So see what I did? I just ever so lightly mixed it together

And that's it! It's completely done! Now, another important step is that you let this sit

for about 5 to 10 minutes, it relaxes the gluten which means you're gonna get a really fluffy pancake

So I'm just gonna clean up, let this - leave it alone for about five minutes or so, and the we're ready to cook them up. That's it!

My batter has been resting for about five minutes so we are ready to cook them up

Now, I have a little griddle here that's been preheating over medium heat, and all I'm gonna do is

stick a little bit of butter -this is a stick of butter-, you can do whatever you want, can grease it however you want

And I'm just going to lightly grease it, because I don't want a ton of butter, I don't want a tablespoon of butter

to cook my pancakes in. Maybe I'm just a bit weirdo, I don't know, but I don't like the taste of

pancakes cooked in a ton of butter... don't ask, I don't.. I'm a bit strange, I don't know

So, you have your batter ready. Just give this a nice little stir... That's perfect!

I'm not even going to bother going even further with that. And now we're just going to cook them up

I'm gonna use a little bit in a ladle, like this. And just put them right onto your griddle

And these are going to cook up, and once you start to see bubbles, then you know you are ready to flip them

And I'll show you what that looks like

Just ready to flip my last two and as you can see all the little bubbles on top.

That's when you know you're ready to flip. See that? Perfect!

And I always find that your first batch of pancakes always come a little bit wonky donky, but then

the rest of them come perfect. Don't ask why, they just do.

This are gonna cook for another thirty seconds... if that. They really cook in no time the second time

that you flip them. Yo're just looking for that beautiful golden colour. Then we're gonna remove them

Here we go

And that is our quick and easy every-day pancakes, which I- look at the colour of those

I have got to give myself a taste. You can top them with butter... I don't like to top them with butter

I just like a little maple syrup over the top

I like them simple, I like them good. I wanna eat some

I'll make it a big bite at that one

Mhm! So good!

Perfect every single time! And it doesn't get any easier than "one one one one one". Remember that!

But the recipe is gonna be at www.laurainthekitchen.com, so go on there,

get the recipe, print it out if you want to, and then get to your kitchen tomorrow morning, and

make these pancakes because they are so good and so easy. See you later. Bye!