5 Ingredient Classic Pancakes
Bettie · bakerbettie.com · 2018 · 6
Against 802 pancake recipes
More sugar than 94% of recipes and more liquid than 82%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 802 pancake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 94% of recipes: 42% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 16%, about 2.5 times as much.
- More liquid than 82% of recipes: 200% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 159%.
- More leavening than 83% of recipes: 7.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.4%.
- More fat than 82% of recipes: 24% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 16%.
Ingredients (7)
- 120 grams (1 cup) all-purpose flour120 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- 50 grams (¼ cup) granulated sugar (optional)50 g
- 240 grams (1 cup, 240 ml) buttermilk (see post for substitution)240 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 2 tablespoons oil or melted butter, slightly cooled≈ 28 g
- large pinch salt (optional, but recommended)≈ 0.4 g
flour 120 gbatter 498 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 802 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Liquid200% · 83rd percentile · median 159%
- Egg42% · 62nd percentile · median 40%
- Sugar42% · 94th percentile · median 16%
- Fat24% · 82nd percentile · median 16%
- Leavening7.7% · 84th percentile · median 5.4%
- Salt0.3% · 33rd percentile · median 0.9%
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