Sourdough Pancakes

In the interest of expanding both my sourdough recipe repertoire, as well as adding a new kind of bread-related post to the site, this morning I decided to get up and once and for all figure out how to make sourdough pancakes.

There are a lot of recipes available online and in books, and I've tried a few of them in the past. Here's the thing about sourdough though, everyones' starter is a different consistency (no matter how much we try to maintain ratios, it just never seems to pan out). So most of the recipes I've tried have flopped.

Today I took a different tack; I looked up a half dozed recipes (both sour and standard), compared ingredient ratios, wrote down some notes, and went to the mixer. From there I just tried to keep the same basic ratios intact while working with about 2 cups of starter as the base. This is what I came up with:

2 Cups Starter

1 Large Egg

2 Tbl Oil

2 Tbl Honey

1/2 Tsp Salt

3/4 Tsp Baking Soda

3/4 Cup Flour

With the starter in the bowl, I added all the wet ingredients. It still looked a little thin so I took a stab at how much extra flour I might need (started with a half a cup), I added the salt and soda to the flour and gradually mixed it in. It was still a little thin so I added another 1/4 cup of flour. That seemed to do the trick so I got to cooking them up.

Pizza Night

A long week and a particularly tough Friday combined with ladypant's new job called for a celebration in the form of pizza night. The crust was a standard french bread recipe with the addition of olive oil and about half the yeast.  The toppings were mushrooms, caramelized onions, blue cheese and mozzarella cheese. One pizza had homemade pesto for the sauce, the other had tomatoes instead.  Only the tomato pizza got photographed. The pesto pizza was gone before a photo could be taken.

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Whole Wheat Pizza

The best part about having a stand mixer is how easy it is to throw together some pizza dough together the night before, let it rise in the fridge, and have homemade pizza that night. This dough is made with whole wheat and the pizza has sausage, fennel, mushrooms and artichoke hearts.

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