How to make healthy pancakes from scratch.

I’m a pretty big pancake fan. I’ll often ignore the age old adage “you can’t have breakfast for dinner” and make up a big mess o’ pancakes after a hard day at work. As foods go, pancakes aren’t necessarily unhealthy to begin with, but the standard processed bleached refined white flour syrup sponge that you will typically encounter (a side note here: all you can eat pancakes at IHOP…not as good as advertised) is decidedly less healthy.
So in today’s post I’ll be taking an in depth look at pancakes starting with a good basic pancake recipe (no mixes for this post!) from the Joy of Cooking:
Joy of Cooking Pancakes
1½ cups all purpose flour
3 Tablespoons sugar
1¾ tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1½ cups milk
3 tablespoons melted butter
2 eggs
½ teaspoon vanilla
I’ll go over each part of the recipe and see what can be changed to make this griddle fried ambrosia just a bit healthier based on my years of experience and careful study in the art of pancake making.


