Dad's Pancakes

Makes roughly 6 medium-sized (5") pancakes.

Ingredients

• 170g plain flour
• 1 egg
• Milk
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1.5 tsp baking powder
• salt
• For bacon & cinnamon version:
  • 12 rashers crispy fried streaky bacon
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• For blueberry version:
  • a punnet of blueberries

Method

1. Measure out the flour and add the other dry ingradients in a bowl.
2. Make a well in the centre and add the egg.
3. Stir the egg in the well, gradually incorporating the flour and adding milk to maintain a thick creamy consistency.
4. Beat the batter to add air and remove lumps.
5. Cut up the bacon into small (1") pieces.
6. Preheat a thick-bottomed pan and add oil to thinly cover the pan.
7. Ladle one or several pools of batter into the pan; they should spread to roughly 5" in diameter.
8. Quickly press either 4 or 5 blueberries, or two rashers' worth of bacon into the top side of each panckake.
9. Fry over a medium heat until the top side has formed bubbles and has lost its liquid sheen (usually around 3 mins).
10. Flip and leave for another minute or two; both sides should be golden brown.
11. Serve with butter and powdered sugar (Dutch style), or maple/golden syrup (American style).

Traditional English-style

• 200g plain flour
• 2 eggs
• 300ml milk
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 tbsp sugar
• pinch salt
• no baking powder!