{"id":390,"date":"2009-09-06T19:05:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T01:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2013-07-23T19:15:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T02:15:48","slug":"old-fashioned-sourdough-pancakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/old-fashioned-sourdough-pancakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Old-Fashioned Sourdough Pancakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every weekend I grab my sourdough starter from the refrigerator on Saturday, feed it well and wait until Sunday to make some pancakes.\u00a0 For starter I have used <a href=\"http:\/\/carlsfriends.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter<\/a> for many years. For many years Carl Griffith shared his starter and it is now shared by his friends.\u00a0 They also share their recipes and pictures of their creations on <a href=\"http:\/\/carlsfriends.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Griffith&#8217;s Sourdough<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-391\" title=\"IMG_4700\" alt=\"IMG_4700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_4700-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As for the pancakes, I have been using the same <a href=\"http:\/\/whatscookingamerica.net\/Bread\/SourdoughPancakes.htm\" target=\"_blank\">recipe<\/a> for a long time.\u00a0 It is simple and uses basic chemistry.\u00a0 You take 2 cups of sourdough starter at room temperature, a culture where you have your yeast creating carbon dioxide bubbles and some acid.\u00a0 You add 2 tablespoons of sugar and the yeast get real happy.\u00a0 Then comes the 4 tablespoons of olive oil, one egg and 1\/2 teaspoon of salt.\u00a0 I let this sit for a minute before I add in the final ingredient.\u00a0 An elixir of 1 tablespoon of warm water with one teaspoon of baking soda.\u00a0 The first step is putting the baking soda in the water and letting it sit.\u00a0 The last step is to carefully fold the elixir into the batter and let it bubble and foam for a minute or two.\u00a0 If everything is happy, the acid in the sourdough mixture reacts with the baking soda to create more carbon dioxide.\u00a0 This is only enhanced as the batter is carefully poured on a 400 degree griddle.\u00a0 Nothing like light airy pancakes.\u00a0 Happy pancake day as we had pancakes for dinner.\u00a0 And yes, a few even had peanut butter on them with real maple syrup tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Updated to fix broken links 7\/23\/2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every weekend I grab my sourdough starter from the refrigerator on Saturday, feed it well and wait until Sunday to make some pancakes. For starter I have used 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter for many years. For many years Carl Griffith shared his starter and it is now shared by his friends. They also [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-food","odd"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3716,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}