Pancake

Pancake is a fun snack in my family. We do prepare it once in a while thou, pancake is not a regular food for us. My mom is a super chef and an excellent mother in all aspects. She taught us how to make it. Sometimes I will get it perfectly but most times it's always so bad that I won't be able to eat it myself. The other day I made it with my little brother that was the most terrible pancake I've ever made in my life it was breaking, burnt, too much baking powder infact we had to dispose it. We ended up drinking water for breakfast that day🤣

My elder brother love Pancakes so much that he can prostrate for me to make it for him before going out, that's when I will start telling him to do things that are beyond his power. He can eat pancakes in the morning, afternoon and night without complaining.

Today I made pancakes for the family at first it wasn't coming out well, later on after the third pancake it came out fine and not burnt just like how my mom would do it. My Little sister has been coming to the kitchen to steal the ones that are done from the plate. I was already starving and it was looking like malaria to me because I was hungry. I kept making the pancakes without getting to eat as much as I want and I still suffered to make it ooo....thief!!!!

I made two parts that's because my parents does not like much sugar became my mum is not feeling too well. I made the other part for we we, for us that can take in sugar without any issue.

I made my home made pancake today with:
- Plain flour
- Baking powder
- Sugar
- Salt
- Eggs
- A Tin milk
- Vegetable oil

Other addictivs:

Pepper, onion, flavours, butter, honey, cinnamon e.t.c

Directions:
- In a Large bowl, sieve the flour into the bowl then mix the flour with sugar, salt, and baking powder.  That's one of the rules of mixing that is dry agents first. Mix the wet agents that is the milk and eggs together and pour it into the flour mix. Mix well to avoid lots of lumps

- Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot with Orange juice 😊😊or anything you like.

That’s really all there is to it. Of course, pancakes aren’t without their challenges. We’ve all had bleh pancakes, or dense or flavorless or undercooked or burnt or practically scrambled when you want to flip them. My Pancakes getting scrambled whenever I want to flip is my major issue and that is because of too wet batter.

There are many more challenges like:

Getting flat pancakes

This could be as a result of an overly-wet batter. Add a little extra flour and see if that makes a difference. The batter should be thick enough that it drips rather than runs off the spoon and remember, it should have some lumps still in it.

If a little flour doesn’t fix the issue, that means there could be an issue with your baking powder. Baking powder gets spoilt eventually, growing stale if it’s been in your store for long. You can test its freshness by splashing a little warm water on a spoonful of baking powder it should bubble.

Burning pancakes!

This could be as a result of heat problem. You want your pan to be hot but not too hot, aim for medium heat. You may need to adjust up or down over the course of frying up the batch because you will be frying alot. You will get your pan hot, stay hot, and give your pancakes a good crisp crust (and will reduce the chances of your pancakes cooking unevenly.

Unable to flip a pancake without it falling apart.

Your batter could be too loose—add a little flour. Or you might be turning too soon. Kindly wait for those bubbles to appear on the surface of the pancakes, since they show that not only have the pancakes cooked on the bottom layer, but that the uncooked side is beginning to firm up too, which means that it won’t fall apart when you flip. This could be a heat problem too. Not hot enough and the pancake won’t have had a chance to develop strong that is, it won’t have cooked enough to stand up to a flip.

In conclusion

Getting the perfect pancakes is not as difficult as you may think and can be so difficult as well when there's a problem somewhere. All you need to do is manage the heat and make sure that you’re not undercooking or overcooking your pancakes.

Watch your pancakes as they tend to cook rather quickly, and don’t forget to let your batter sit before you start pouring it into the pan( my Mom just taught me this tonight)

The key to making good pancakes is to simply be patient. This is the case when preparing your batter, heating and letting your pancakes cook.

Thank you for reading!!!

Add pancakes to your food menu 😉