I grew up on home-made pancakes but I like Betty Crocker’s Bisquick “Melt-in-Your-Mouth” recipe best. It was on the back or side of their box for years. For this recipe, don’t substitute a generic or store brand for the Bisquick, they just don’t turn out the same.
- 2 cups Bisquick mix
- 1 cup milk
- 2 Tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 Tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 eggs
In a medium to large bowl, gently mix the dry ingredients. Add the lemon juice to the milk to curdle it (or use 1 cup buttermilk and leave out the lemon juice). Crack the eggs separately and break the yolk with a fork to make it mix more easily with the dry ingredients. Add each egg to the dry ingredients but don’t stir yet. Add the curdled milk and then stir the ingredients together just until everything is mixed but there are still small lumps in the batter. (Small lumps are thumb-nail size or smaller). Let the batter rest while you heat the griddle.
Turn up the heat on your griddle to 350° F (medium high). Wait 30-60 seconds, then spray the surface with Pam. Wait 30-45 seconds more, then begin adding batter.
Scoop up 1/4 cup batter and turn it onto the hot surface in a single pour. The batter will flatten out into a perfect circle on its own if your surface is flat. Cook your pancake until the top has small bubbles popping as it cooks. The edges should be firm – test with a pancake turner. At 1.5 minutes or 2 minutes, the pancake should be ready to turn. If the pancake turner doesn’t easily slip under the edge of the pancake without batter running onto the pan, it isn’t ready yet. When you flip, use a quick wrist rotation. Cook 1-2 minutes more. The bottom side never looks as pretty as the top side, but it you should see center brown circle when it is ready. By this time, you cn easily flip the pancake over to look at the bottom and test it by pressing the edge of the pancake turner into the thickest part. If you see no runny batter, it is ready.
Serve warm.
Makes 10 pancakes; pancake diameter about 4-5 inches.
My daughters always enjoyed “baby” pancakes. Use the same recipe but pour only a Tablespoon of batter onto the griddle for each pancake. They cook much more quickly, so by the time you’ve covered the griddle with baby pancakes, it may be time to flip the first ones.
