For anyone who wonders if there’s something better you can do with that extra quarter cup of flour that may go into the compost bin each time you feed your active starter, here’s an AMAZINGLY YUMMY pancake recipe that you can make using your excess starter (when it’s not going to making loaves, obviously). Simply save up a couple of feeds’ worth of excess starter and when you have enough, in this case about 1/2 cup for ~8 pancakes or waffles, mix up a Saturday morning breakfast batch of pancakes. Even if it’s Tuesday night; nuthin’ wrong with pancakes for dinner. After all, pancakes are really just another form of bread but with some egg added.
If you haven’t accumulated a half cup of starter but are looking for pancakes tomorrow morning, just take your current excess and build it up to about a half cup when also you feed your starter tonight. You’re basically just making WO batches of starter and going to use one right away in the morning.
(Sorry, this recipe is from RecipeZaar and didn’t come with weight equivalents)
Sourdough Pancakes or Waffles |
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| Serves 2 to 4
(about 1¾ cups batter or 8 waffles)
3/4 cup flour
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Serves 4 to 8
(about 3½ cups batter or 16 waffles)
1½ cup flour
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| Sift together first four ingredients. Beat eggs and milk together in a separate bowl then add with sourdough to dry ingredients. Let rest about 10 minutes. Gently mix in melted butter and cook on hot griddle or waffle iron.
For waffles, use just under 1/4c batter each. For extra fluffy waffles:Separate egg yolks and whites. Beat yolks with milk and butter and add with sourdough to dry ingredients. Let rest; then fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in a hot waffle iron or on a griddle. |
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Please note: “Extra sourdough starter” means the discard from an ACTIVE starter’s feed. While you’re starting a starter from scratch, what you’re removing isn’t excess starter since the yeast colony isn’t up to speed yet; that should really be put in the compost. Once your starter is fully fired up and you could make real sourdough bread with it, any feed discard from there on can be considered “extra starter”.
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