Cornmeal Pancakes

By Florence Fabricant

Total Time
1 hour
Rating
4(83)
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Ingredients

Yield:4 servings
  • 1cup all-purpose flour
  • ½cup white cornmeal, preferably stone-ground
  • ½teaspoon baking powder
  • 1tablespoon sugar
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1egg
  • 2tablespoons melted butter
  • 1cup milk
  • Soft butter for greasing skillet or griddle and for serving
  • Warm maple syrup
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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Mix flour, cornmeal, baking powder, sugar and salt in a bowl.

  2. Step 2

    Beat the egg with the melted butter and milk. Stir into the dry ingredients. The batter should not be perfectly smooth.

  3. Step 3

    Heat a griddle or skillet, and brush with butter. Drop a generous tablespoonful of the batter into the pan, cook over medium heat until lightly browned, turn and brown the other side. If this first pancake turns out well, put it on a warm serving platter. But often, the first pancake serves to season the pan and does not brown evenly. It is best discarded before getting on with cooking the rest. Brush more butter on the griddle or skillet as needed.

  4. Step 4

    Serve the pancakes with butter and maple syrup.

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Comments

Lindsay

These pancakes were bland and weirdly dense. (I'm someone who *loves* cornmeal pancakes but lost my usual recipe--and I followed the recipe as written, I'm not one of those recipe commenters who subbed in gluten free flour, used applesauce instead of milk, and tried to make these on the hood of their car and is confused about how they turned out)

Margaret

Corn meal is a nice pancake variation. I have made by replacing milk with buttermilk (1 cup, plus a couple of tablespoons) and added a half tsp. baking soda. Also have made recipe with yellow cornmeal.

Molly C

Same as the other reviewer, bland and dense. Barely edible, these shouldn’t be part of this recipe collection.

Rikki

These had no flavor and were way too thick. And the texture was off. Would not recommend and will not make again.

Laura G.

These were fine, easy to mix up and work with, but as someone else noted a little bland. I might up the sugar and salt and try yellow cornmeal instead of white.

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