Day 47 - American pancakes

I bet you all have noticed by now that the way we, Europeans, make our pancakes is much different from the American way. Actually, I believe our pancakes should actually be called crepes, from French.

The European pancakes, crepes, are bigger, thiner and most of all - contain no baking powder or butter. Just flour, eggs, salt and milk (of any kind). Sometimes esp. for the friench version (crepes) they add sugar and butter, but in my country we usually omit that. But you always need to make the batter rest for about an hour.

The American are smaller and thicker and usually contain sugar, butter, and baking powder.

There is an excellent video online on how to make both kind of pancakes, just take a look at it here.

Anyway, being a full European, I do have trouble with American pancakes. This morning I tried making them again after... well, a lot of time. The result was not satisfying. According to the video there are some things I did wrong during the process, the biggest mistake I think was making my batter too thin - the pancakes had almost no volume.

Topping: fresh strawberries and plain soy yogurt.

 No recipe today, I'll give this another goal. But, you can google it and find many decent recipes online.