Best Homemade Pancake Recipe Using Fresh Milled Flour

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I’m sharing the best homemade pancake recipe using freshly milled flour. Pancakes are quick and easy, but you can increase the flavor and nutrition with just a few extra ingredients! Other delicious breakfasts to make with fresh milled flour are quick breads like this chocolate chip pumpkin bread, cherry pie muffins, chocolate banana bread, and 3 ingredient homemade biscuits.

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I love making a lot of pancakes on the weekend. Enough even for leftovers. There’s nothing like letting the kids sleep in on Saturday and having some quiet time in the kitchen while I cook and listen to a podcast or some good worship music!

If you are used to using boxed pancake mix or frozen pancakes, I want to encourage you to try making them from scratch instead. You can skip the chemicals and preservatives, and the pancakes really will taste SO much better.

Why You’ll Love This Pancake Recipe

Simple – Making pancakes is a simple process, and you can whip up a batch in a relatively small amount of time. Especially if you will be cooking multiple pancakes at a time.

Nutritious – Freshly milled flour is full of all the healthy vitamins and minerals that’s commonly taken out of grocery store all purpose flour. That makes these pancakes more nutritious. However, even if you will be using all purpose flour, they will still be more nutritious when you make them at home versus buying processed pancakes from the store.

Stores easily – I like making a double batch of pancakes so that I have plenty for leftovers. They store very easily in the refrigerator and, in my opinion, I think they’re even better the next day!

So here’s my recipe!

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Ingredients

Freshly milled flour – 4 cups. I use soft white wheat for this. I’ve used hard white and hard red wheat before, but my favorite is soft white wheat for pancakes and other breakfast pastries. Alternatively, you can substitute freshly milled flour for all purpose flour, spelt flour, oat flour, or other flours.

Sugar – 4 tablespoons. Organic cane sugar is my favorite. It’s a darker color than white sugar you buy at the grocery store because of the extra molasses left behind. But use what you have on hand.

Baking powder – 4 teaspoons.

Baking soda – 2 teaspoons.

Fine sea salt – 1 teaspoon. I prefer Redmond’s Real Salt but use what you have.

Buttermilk – 4 cups. You can also use regular milk, milk with an added tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice, and even a mixture of milk and some yogurt (to thicken it).

Eggs – You will need 4 eggs for this recipe.

Avocado oil – 1/2 cup. Avocado oil is nearly flavorless, but it’s a great, healthy fat to use. I would avoid olive oil since it has a strong flavor. But if you want, you can use other oils or butter if that’s what you have.

Vanilla extract – 1 teaspoon. This adds a flavor boost to these already delicious homemade pancakes.

Butter or other cooking fat – You will need some fat to melt in your skillet so your pancakes don’t stick. Most of the time I will use bacon grease or butter, but sausage grease and avocado oil are also good.

You can cut the recipe quantities in half or double it for twice as many pancakes for larger family gatherings.

How to Make the Best Pancakes

This is the best homemade pancake recipe using freshly milled flour and a few other ingredients that will add a lot of delicious flavor and nutrition!

Tools you may need

Large mixing bowl – To make a lot of pancakes, you need a large mixing bowl.

Medium mixing bowl – A medium bowl is perfect for combining all the wet ingredients.

Measuring cups and spoons – You will need a tablespoon, teaspoon, cup, and half-cup measurements.

Dough whisk – You can use an electric mixer if you want, but I always mix the batter by hand because it’s quick and easy. I love my Danish dough whisk for making pancakes.

Ladle – For pouring pancake batter into the skillet, I usually use my biggest ladle. But you can also use a measuring cup.

Flat spatula – You’ve got to flip those pancakes!

Cast iron skillet – I use all three of my cast iron skillets to speed up the cooking process. If I had a fourth one, I would use it, too, but three makes the job a lot quicker.

Container for pancakes – You can put your perfect homemade pancakes directly on to plates for ready and waiting family members, or put them in a 9 x 13 or other similar casserole dish. I like that when I add hot pancakes to the top of the stacks, it keeps the others nice and hot, too.

Instructions

Here we go! Follow these steps for the best homemade pancakes using freshly milled flour!!

Make the Pancake Batter

In a large mixing bowl, add all the dry ingredients and whisk it together.

Make a well in the center and set the bowl aside.

In a medium mixing bowl, add all the wet ingredients and whisk them together.

Pour the wet ingredients into the large mixing bowl with the dry ingredients.

Whisk the ingredients together using your dough whisk until everything is well combined and you don’t see any more lumps of dry ingredients. Using a Danish dough whisk makes this job easy to do by hand. It’s sturdy and you can use the metal to scrape the dough from the bottom of your bowl.

Cook Pancakes

Heat up your cast iron skillet(s) over medium-low heat on top of your stove. Add enough butter or other cooking fat to coat the bottom of your skillet to prevent your pancakes from sticking.

When your skillets are hot, add a ladle full of pancake batter to the center of each skillet. My family doesn’t mind large pancakes, so I fill up my skillet.

The batter will start to form bubbles on top and those bubbles will pop.

Interestingly, there is a phobia associated with tiny bubbles, holes, and bumps. If you have trypophobia, cooking pancakes may make you uncomfortable.

When the bubbles on top of your pancake stop filling in with uncooked batter around the edges and most of the pancake, flip your pancake over using a flat spatula.

Cook an additional 30 seconds or until your pancake is done to your liking. Then remove your cooked pancake to a separate container.

Keep making pancakes following the steps above until you use up all your pancake batter. You may need to add additional cooking fat if your pancakes start to stick to your hot skillets.

Tips

• Use enough cooking fat to coat the bottom of your hot skillet(s) to prevent your pancakes from sticking initially. I’ve found that I sometimes need to add a bit more cooking fat about half way through cooking pancakes, but it depends on how well-seasoned your cast iron skillets are. If your pancakes are sticking, add more cooking fat, as needed.
• Wait to flip your pancakes until most of the bubbles at the top of your batter have popped. Adjust your heat, as necessary, to avoid burning the other side of the pancake as it cooks. They should be a nice, golden brown.

Recipe Variations

Want something special? Try these recipe variations!

Pumpkin Pancakes

If you want some delicious pumpkin pancakes, add a cup of pumpkin puree to your batter along with traditional apple pie spices! That includes cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. You can also add ginger and cardamom if you like those flavors.

Apple Pancakes

Making apple pancakes is simple. Add a cup of applesauce or apple butter to your pancake batter! You can also add some apple pie spice (cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice) to bring out the apple flavor more.

Fruity Pancakes

You can add any dried fruit and some soft fresh fruits to your pancake batter for something delicious and nutritious. I like chopped banana, raisins, and dried cranberries.

Nutty Pancakes

Adding some chopped pecans, walnuts, and hard seeds like chia, flax, and sunflower seeds give your pancakes a nice crunch. If I have the time, I add nuts and fruit to my pancake batter after making a few plain ones for my picky eaters.

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Other Breakfast Recipes from the Farm

• Cook Eggs in a Cast Iron Skillet Without Sticking
• Butter vs Bacon Grease
• Scrumptious Cherry Pie Muffin Recipe

If you try this recipe and love it, I would love if you gave it 5 stars! Also, tag me on Instagram @rivers.family.farm.