10 useful tips for making homemade pancakes

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Pancakes are perhaps one of the most consumed dishes. Both children and adults love to enjoy freshly baked pancakes. And it doesn’t matter whether they are with butter, or with jam, meat or potatoes. Everyone can choose a taste for themselves. After all, homemade pancakes can be prepared with absolutely any filling. But before you roll it into pancakes, you need to be able to properly dilute the dough so that there are no lumps in it, and fry it so that you get good pancakes. That's what we'll talk about.

1. No matter how many new ways to cover frying pans are invented, the best one for cooking pancakes was and remains a cast iron frying pan. And sometimes it’s not enough to heat it up. If you don’t want to get your first pancake lumpy, housewives advise first heating a frying pan greased with vegetable oil or fat and sprinkled with salt. After a few minutes, remove the pan from the heat and let it cool. After wiping it, you need to pour salt again and wipe it with a towel, or a paper towel. After such hardening, the pancakes will definitely not stick to the bottom, and you can turn them over without any problems. The main thing is to remember to grease the pan with pork fat or oil after each pancake you remove. 

2. To make pancakes, try mixing 2 types of flour: 2 parts premium and 1 part second grade. Homemade pancakes made from this mixture will turn out tender, with an airy texture. And cooking pancakes allows you to use not only these two types of flour. By mixing the dough with buckwheat, oatmeal, and rice flour, you will get a completely new taste of a traditional dish.

3. The strength of the dough and the elasticity of the finished pancakes directly depends on the quantity and quality of the eggs used. You can get delicate and thin pancakes by using fresh eggs for the dough. But it is better to refuse egg powder. It does not at all guarantee that you will get delicious pancakes. And for greater strength and elasticity, it is recommended to let the dough rest for at least half an hour.

4. As a rule, pancakes are made with milk, water or kefir. And some experimenters even add sparkling water, beer or kumiss. At the same time, homemade pancakes become delicate. And with each of these products, pancakes acquire a fresh, new taste.

5. If you decide to use baking powder instead of soda, please note that you will need twice as much of it. In any case, you need to add either soda or baking powder, as they give the pancake a loose feel. 

6. Did you know that if your pancakes tear when you turn them over, it means you just need to add an egg and flour to the dough. But don't overdo it with the eggs, otherwise your homemade pancakes will become rubbery.

7. To get rid of lumps in the dough, just dilute the pancake flour in salted water.

8. To give the pancakes a delicate creamy taste, add 20-25 grams of butter to the dough just before frying.

9. Even if you really want sweet pancakes, you don't need to add a lot of sugar to the dough. An excess of it will make homemade pancakes tough. It’s better to add a sweet addition to pancakes in the form of jam or condensed milk.

10. To diversify the taste of this dish, spices have been added to pancake dough since ancient times. Various finely chopped pieces of food, for example, chopped eggs, boiled meat, herbs, or berries, were added to the dough just before frying. Or they did it in a different way. After the dough was poured into the pan, additives were scattered on top. The pancake, baked on one side, was turned over to the other side and finished baking.

There is nothing easier than frying pancakes to cheer yourself up by enjoying the taste and aroma of such a simple, but at the same time attractive dish as homemade pancakes .