Sourdough pancakes
Barney Desmazery · bbcgoodfood.com · 2024 · makes around 12 pancakes
Against 802 pancake recipes
Less sugar than 85% of recipes and no salt, unlike 80%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 802 pancake recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 85% of recipes: 6.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 16%, about half as much.
- No salt at all, where 80% of recipes use some (most of those 0.6 to 1.6% of the flour weight).
- More fat than 83% of recipes: 25% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 16%.
Ingredients (8)
- 200g/7oz self-raising flour200 g
- 1 tbsp golden caster sugar≈ 13 g
- 1 tsp baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 200g/7oz sourdough starter (active or the excess you'd throw away)200 g
- 2 eggs≈ 100 g
- 260ml/9 fl oz milk≈ 268 g
- 50g/2oz butter melted, plus extra butter for frying50 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- maple syrup to serven/a
flour 200 gbatter 835 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. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Liquid134% · 31st percentile · median 159%
- Egg50% · 71st percentile · median 40%
- Sugar6.3% · 14th percentile · median 16%
- Fat25% · 84th percentile · median 16%
- Leavening7.3% · 75th percentile · median 5.4%
- Salt0% · 10th percentile · median 0.9%
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