uoficowboy
Assistant Cook
I was reading through the section on pancakes in the joy of cooking and ran across something odd. They give a recipe for pancakes:
This strikes me as wrong in three different ways:
Am I missing something here? I know that questioning the joy of cooking is like spitting on the bible - but still... This just strikes me as being so flagrantly wrong.
1.5 C flour
3 T sugar
1.5 t baking powder
0.5 t salt
1.5 C milk
3 T unsalted butter
2 eggs
then they give say for buttermilk pancakes to replace the milk with buttermilk and add 0.5 t baking soda.3 T sugar
1.5 t baking powder
0.5 t salt
1.5 C milk
3 T unsalted butter
2 eggs
This strikes me as wrong in three different ways:
- Buttermilk is thicker than milk (at least it always has been in my experience) so more buttermilk should be used.
- More leavening is added (the baking soda) but none of the baking powder is removed. So the pancakes are going to get extra leavening... My understanding is that 4x as much baking powder should be removed as baking soda added.
- Not enough baking soda is added. The proportion that seems standard is 0.5 t baking soda to 1 C buttermilk, so as to keep the ph neutral (buttermilk is acidic, baking soda is basic).
Am I missing something here? I know that questioning the joy of cooking is like spitting on the bible - but still... This just strikes me as being so flagrantly wrong.