You are never sure how a recipe will turn out, even if you have made that recipe a time or two before. And trying a new recipe is like an adventure , where you have a limited "road map" to help guide you to the end.
ingredients |
The mixing, weighing ( yes, weighing) of the dry ingredients, making sure that your milk and eggs are at the right "room temp" before you add them to the dry mix.
Making sure that you mix the batter long enough to activate the xanthun gum to insure proper binding.
Gabriel helping make the pancakes |
So when Gabriel asked me to make pancakes, which I had not done in over a month, I decided I wanted to make buttermilk pancakes.
No, problem I thought, I have made buttermilk pancakes a time or two before and since I am pretty comfortable with taking a gluten filled recipe and converting it in to a GF recipe I felt I was more than up for the challenge of making GF buttermilk pancakes for my son.
G.I. Joe cooking the pancakes |
nice and golden brown |
G.I.Joe made two separate attempts before he just trashed the batter and the 8 pancakes he had "cooked".
in they trash they went |
The first set cooked up really nice on the outside, but did not want to cook on the inside and after almost 10m of cooking them he took them off the griddle and turned up the heat to 400F then set about making another batch.
The second batch cooked faster on the outside, but we had the same problem on the inside, nothing but raw dough. G.I.Joe cooked these for about the same length of time and ended up pretty much burning them then gave up and tossed them into the trash, also, and the unused batter into the sink.
unused batter |
I often hear that baking is a science and cooking is an art form and well I have to say that NOW I finally understand what that means.
And even though I did not get the end results I was wanting I did learn that the way I had combined the ingredients was not the proper way and so next time I will know what NOT to do.
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