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.