Sometimes I hate breakfast time. My four-year-old son is running around like a baboon, my one-year-old son is clinging to my pyjama pants and my husband is off getting himself ready for the day. I'm always in my pyjamas because that's what I was wearing when woken up by the crazy jumping baboon boy who is always desperately hungry. I'm sure this is exactly what happens to Angelina in the morning.
Today I was struggling with what to feed the baboons. There was no milk, no bread, no youghurt... We are the typical western breakfast family who can only eat cereal or toast or else we have to stomp and cry (have you seen those angry baboons on tv?). So I googled no milk pancakes and they were a hit so I share them with you:
Delicious Milk-Free Spelt Flour Pancakes
Ingredients
- 2 cups of Spelt Flour
- 4 teaspoons of baking powder
- 2 tablespoons sugar (or whatever sweetener you like)
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- 2 cups of water
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 2 eggs, fork beaten(We eat eggs and I haven't tried with an egg replacer, but can't see why it wouldn't work - you can only try!)
- In a mixing bowl lightly whisk together all of the dry ingredients
- In a pyrex measuring cup (easy to measure out liquids)whisk together all of the wet ingredients.
- Make a well in centre of dry ingredients and add wet ingredients, stirring gently until it is all mixed together
- Heat up a skillet or frying pan on low/med heat. I have a well seasoned cast iron skillet and it's awesome for pancakes. A friend once told me that the pan is ready when little drops of water dance on the pan - or if you've made a bazillion pancakes you'll just know.
- Ladle on your batter in little or big dollops - suit yourself. Generally with wheat flour/milk pancakes I know the pancake is ready to flip when the little bubbles in the batter start to 'set' around the edges, this didn't really happen with my pancakes - they just kind of started to look 'more cooked' than 'less cooked'... Cook the other side and then eat lots and lots of delicious milk-free gluten-free pancakes!
When I was little I seem to remember eating a lot of 'silver dollar' pancakes. Perhaps this was because if we ate pancakes at a restaurant we were in the States? What are little pancakes called in Canada? In Australia I see pikelets, but I'm not sure if these are little pancakes or something different. I do remember going on a road trip somewhere in BC and my brother and I ordered 'cover your plate' pancakes. They was huge, they covered our plate! My brother and I cut our huge pancakes into four quarters and put a different topping on each quarter - we lived life on the edge!
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