The pancake recipe

So this is officially the first recipe I have actually written out (with the exception of my cajun chicken pasta)

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/2 tbsp baking powder
2 1/2 cups buttermilk
2 large eggs, separated
2 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp melted butter


Directions:

Mix together buttermilk**, egg yolks, vanilla and sugar. Sift the flour and baking powder into the wet ingredients. Stir together until well mixed. Then add the melted butter and stir. Beat the egg whites in a separate bowl until you reach stiff peaks. While your pan or griddle is heating up, Fold the egg whites into the batter. Butter your pan or griddle, add a ladle of batter and wait until you see bubbles all over before you flip.*** Repeat until your batter is gone.*

*Keep your pancakes warm while you finish the batter. Preheat the oven to 250. Place pancakes on an ungreased baking sheet in a single layer and cover lightly with aluminum foil and put in the oven until you are ready to serve.

**Don't have buttermilk? You can use regular milk, but if you have 5 minutes and lemon juice or white vinegar you can make your own. Take your measuring cup and add 2 1/2 tbsp of lemon juice or vinegar and add milk to that up to the 2 1/2 cup mark and let sit for 5 minutes.


***If you want to add blueberries, chocolate chips, pecans, walnuts, etc. to the pancakes, do so after you have ladled the batter onto the griddle, but before you flip. You can control how much you want in each pancake, how well its dispersed AND you prevent it from burning.