Monday, September 1, 2008

I made pancakes today

I thought I'd continue with the breakfast theme since I had to make another batch of pancakes today anyway. My basic pancake recipe is from Whole Foods for the Whole Family.
It's flexible and adaptable. The basic recipe is;

2 C milk
1-3 eggs
2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
2 C whole wheat flour
Optional: Up to 1/4 C honey, maple syrup, molasses or brown sugar

I needed to make a triple batch today and ended up using;
6 C milk
6 eggs
6 t baking soda
1 1/2 t. salt
4 3/4 C whole wheat flour
1 3/4 C flax meal
1 C oat bran
1/4 C honey
1/2 C carob powder

I started off with even measures of the dry ingredients but saw that the batter was much too runny. I added the 3/4 cups of flax meal and 3/4 C flour slowly until I felt like the batter was the right consistency. I used a 1/3 measuring scoop to dish them into the pan. I feel like this size is big enough and smaller sizes don't stack well for storing in my containers. Once these were all cooked, and cooled a bit I took a half sheet pan, spray it with no-stick spray and put about 11 pancakes on it. Then I popped it into the freezer for around 15 min, just long enough to freeze them a bit so that they wouldn't stick together. (I keep the stack in the fridge and just keep freezing batches of 11 till they're all frozen and stored) Then I put them in containers like this (about 5 to a container) and store in the freezer. I could store them in plastic bags and I have done that in the past, but it seems wasteful. I was able to get these in 2 per pack for $1 at Dollar Tree and I can use them over and over again. The Take Alongs are my favorite "disposable" storage container. I've found that they hold up the best. Today I filled 8 containers. Now over the next month or so I can move 1-2 containers out the night before from the freezer to the fridge for breakfast.

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