Buckwheat Pancakes

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These have a lot more heft to them than flour pancakes or "buckwheat" pancakes where a bit of buckwheat is mixed in with wheat flour.

2 cups buckwheat flour
2 cups milk or nonfat milk
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 egg

Mix the dry stuff together.
Mix the wet stuff together.
Then mix both together.

Don't mix it too much and do not worry about lumps.

During the summer I add chopped up blackberries or strawberries to the mix.

For cooking, I use a cheap ($25) electric griddle that keeps heat on 325 degees, foolproof. Use a measuring cup, pour the mix out onto preheated griddle. In a few minutes the pancakes will rise a bit, and the top will bubble a bit, that means turn them over. Cook just a few minutes more.

Serve with honey, agave, maple syrup, jam, whatever.

 

[Bird]

I haven't had any buckwheat pancakes since I ate them at my paternal grandmother's house in my pre-teen years; long time ago.

 

[rhunt]

Now that sounds GOOD!! Bob

 

[Gunny]

My kids and grandkids love buckwheat pancakes - and the also love cattail pancakes.

 

[Oldoak]

Buckwheat pancakes have always been my favorite, even today. And my wife, having grown up on a farm, really know how to make genuine buckwheat pancakes. :licking:

I rarely order white flour pancakes when occasional eating out. There're not near as tasty as buckwheat pancakes.

 

[Bird]

My kids and grandkids love buckwheat pancakes - and the also love cattail pancakes.

OK, I never heard of cattail pancakes, so had to look up the recipe on the Internet.

 

[cqaigy2]

OK, I never heard of cattail pancakes, so had to look up the recipe on the Internet.

I won't eat wheat pancakes, wheat allergy, but do like buckwheat pancakes! I think Gunny needs to post a recipe for cattail pancakes.

 

[Bird]

Where do you get the buckwheat flour? I was in 2 Walmarts this morning and I couldn't find any. My wife says she still remembers trying buckwheat pancakes and no on in her family would eat them except her dad.

 

[ovrszd]

Haven't had em for years. But loved them every time I got a chance.

 

[Oldoak]

Where do you get the buckwheat flour? I was in 2 Walmarts this morning and I couldn't find any. My wife says she still remembers trying buckwheat pancakes and no on in her family would eat them except her dad.

Fortunately we still have a couple of mom and pop grocery stores in my area. One is Amish owned and is our reliable source of buckwheat pancake flour.

 

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The main brand available is called Bob's Red Mill. I get it at the local grocery in Mendocino CA. In Virginia used to get it at Wegman's in Fredericksburg.

They can be tricky to make compared to wheat flour pancakes no doubt why they are hard to find. But once you figure it out, easy.

 

[bunyip]

Appreciate the recipe, all we can find is 'Aunt Jemimas' (sure I didn't spell that properly) mix or buckwheat flour in the health food isle, I have tried making them but not the way you describe, mine were not very good so will try your recipe and try again.
Do you let the batter stand like we do for ordinary flour pancakes?
We add a drop of olive oil or melted butter to pancake mix on the others and the pre mix I described also called for the addition of melted butter.
When you cook on the griddle is there a cooking medium or just goes straight on?

 

[ovrszd]

Bunyip, Aunt Jemima's was the last I ate.

 

[bunyip]

I was introduced to buckwheat pancakes in the UK, we lived in Norfolk on the East Coast and were close to a USAF airbase Sculthorpe, we made many friends and often went to the base and were offered all of these wildly exotic foods we had never heard of, I had never heard of a grape popsicle and the other things are a dim distant memory, some were good some I didn't like, we had never heard of buttered popcorn and that is one we still do today, much nicer than the sugra coated stuff we got, but I digress.

 

[ovrszd]

I've travelled a lot thru the military. I've experienced exotic foods. Some I could swallow, some I could not.

One of the best surprises I ever got was roasted snails in a bag like popcorn from a street vendor in Seoul Korea.

One of the worst surprises I ever got was raw oysters on a half shell in a river bar in Savannah Georgia. I held it down but not without struggle.....

 

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Appreciate the recipe, all we can find is 'Aunt Jemimas' (sure I didn't spell that properly) mix or buckwheat flour in the health food isle, I have tried making them but not the way you describe, mine were not very good so will try your recipe and try again.
Do you let the batter stand like we do for ordinary flour pancakes?
We add a drop of olive oil or melted butter to pancake mix on the others and the pre mix I described also called for the addition of melted butter.
When you cook on the griddle is there a cooking medium or just goes straight on?

I use a bit of butter on the electric griddle. I don't add melted butter or oil to the batter but it can't hurt to do that. I do not let the batter stand, put it on the heated griddle as soon as it is mixed. Cheers!

 

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I've travelled a lot thru the military. I've experienced exotic foods. Some I could swallow, some I could not.

One of the best surprises I ever got was roasted snails in a bag like popcorn from a street vendor in Seoul Korea.

One of the worst surprises I ever got was raw oysters on a half shell in a river bar in Savannah Georgia. I held it down but not without struggle.....

Soft shelled crab sandwiches in Maryland. Just like eating a fried spider. I could not believe my hosts telling each other how great this was.

 

[bunyip]

Witchety grubs around a campfire, took several beers to muster the courage and HP sauce to help them down, they tell me they taste good, I didn't chew, just swallowed them whole so I don't know.

 

[ovrszd]

Sometimes I'll offer my farm dog a bite of something I'm eating. He'll sniff, for a second consider it, then look at me with that "I can't believe you eat that" look.

 

[cqaigy2]

Sometimes I'll offer my farm dog a bite of something I'm eating. He'll sniff, for a second consider it, then look at me with that "I can't believe you eat that" look.

Your dog has good sense. :laughing: