Tiny Little Wild Blueberries
I got some itty bitty, flavorful wild blueberries foraged from up north in Saskatchewan. So I made blue berry pancakes for my friends for brunch. Brunch is a whole other story I’ll tell you about later. I don’t have a killer pancake recipe, but I used to work at a fancy brunch place in Toronto as a hostess and they had the best buttermilk blueberry pancakes I’ve ever had. So I tried to recreate them.
I got a basic pancake recipe and substituted butter milk for the milk, and I upped the butter content by a lot, because I remember the pancakes I loved were really rich and would melt in your mouth, so you only needed to eat a little stack, to be satisfied. They were good but I still need to tweak the seasoning a little more to get the perfect balance between salty and sweet. Does anyone have a good buttermilk pancake recipe?
These were delicious! I think Troy had about 12 pancakes that day.
The pancakes were delicious. So was the bacon. Everything was delicious. Thank you Christie.
I’ve always wanted to try to make sourdough pancakes. But you have to have an active starter.
Interested?
Sourdough pancakes would be great, but I don’t have a starter…yet! I didn’t move mine from Vancouver to Sask. It’s still in Ben’s fridge. Do you have a recipe for sourdough pancakes?
I might. I will look in some of my books.
Sourdough Pancakes (from Crust & Crumb, by Peter Reinhart)
Base:
2 1/2 C Starter (wet, barm style)
2 C AP flour
1 C Milk or Buttermilk (room temperature)
1 C Water (room temperature)
Batter
1 tsp Salt
2 large Eggs
2 Tbsp Honey
1 Tbsp melted Butter
1 tsp Baking Soda
– Mix the base the night before. Combine the flour, starter, milk and water until smooth. Cover and leave at room temperature overnight.
– The next morning, whisk together the batter ingredients in a separate bowl. Add the base and stir until just blended. Don’t worry about lumps. Set aside, covered, for 30 minutes.
– Ladle onto a hot skillet and cook as you would normal pancakes.
Good luck with these! I haven’t tried them yet.
Wow, thanks Colleen.
How do you start the starter?