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tanyiadeskins

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a dry pancake mix that you can bulk make for your family....BUT that you only add water too, to make? For instance I bought the Hungry Jack pancake mixes and I add one cup of water per pack... but it got me thinking how incredibly cheaper it must be to make my own. So far in my internet searches I can only find recipes where you need to then add milk, eggs, butter, etc.
 
I only make pancakes from scratch, so I can't help you. My Grandma used to use a mix when she was lazy, but I never heard of a self-made mix (then again, cake mix isn't too popular in this part of the world, so if I didn't hear about it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist). IMHO you either buy a pre-made one, or you do the whole thing yourself, and I can't imagine how it could be done with just water without being bland. It seems like a waste of good things to me to make it from scratch and NOT use milk and oil (my recipe says oil, not butter), eggs etc. Just a thought, but really, if you skip all good things, what will you be left with (my guess is the pre-made mixes do use oil and eggs, but in a dried version, which you can hardly copy at home)?
 
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We use the mix from The Cracker Barrel, and all it requires is that you add water. We use it because it makes better pancakes than any that I've had that are homemade. I don't know of any recipes for pre-made mixes like that, but I would be interested to see them too! :)
 
If pancakes are better from mix than home-made, it's either a bad recipe or a bad cook. Sorry, couldn't resist. :-) On a more understanding note - I can see the charm of mixes, my Grandma was an excellent cook and yet used a pancake mix to make her life easier, and I do agree with this attitude (anything to save time if you don't have it). But home-made ones are simply better. At least the ones I do, or any of my friends, for that matter. There is one more explanation - that the mixes the get here are not that good. Which could be true as well, and the answer to why the ones from the mix are better than home-made ones in your case! :-)

Right now I'm pretty keen to see a mix recipe myself, just for curiosity's sake. :-)
 
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I don't Tanyia but I know that you can substitute Flax seed for eggs...so maybe if you try searching for pancakes made with that you might find a recipe you can do up in bulk and just add water to it!!

The only thing is you might have to keep it in the fridge since I know flax seed can go rancid!!!

Hope you find something you can make...if you do i expect you to share with us all!! :D :D
 
My guess is you could combine: Flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda, powdered milk, flax seed. Then you would just have to figure out the "mix to water" ratio!!!
 
I imagine you can use a dry milk in a mix to make it just to add water..I'm no help though I don't have a recipe. I'll try and look for one though. I was just saying on the way home from church that I was craving pancakes
 
OK...i've been searching and you can actually make it without the egg and the flax seed...you would just make it vegan.

Subsituite dry milk and buttter buds for the veggie oil. It might take a little math....figiung out the butter to oil subbing ratio...but it can be done!! Then all you would need to do is mix it with water to "use it".
 
My friend has a recipe for homemade Bisquick on her site (it uses shortening instead of oil) - and this is the recipe for pancakes with Bisquick: 2 cups Original Bisquick® mix, 1 cup milk & 2 eggs. It would be easy enough to add powdered milk into the recipe and you could either use dried eggs or flax seed. Of course, with the homeade Bisquick, it wouldn't be too hard to just add milk and eggs...
 
adrianka said:
If pancakes are better from mix than home-made, it's either a bad recipe or a bad cook. Sorry, couldn't resist. :-) On a more understanding note - I can see the charm of mixes, my Grandma was an excellent cook and yet used a pancake mix to make her life easier, and I do agree with this attitude (anything to save time if you don't have it). But home-made ones are simply better. At least the ones I do, or any of my friends, for that matter. There is one more explanation - that the mixes the get here are not that good. Which could be true as well, and the answer to why the ones from the mix are better than home-made ones in your case! :-)

Right now I'm pretty keen to see a mix recipe myself, just for curiosity's sake. :-)
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I think it is so easy to take 3 eggs, 120 g (4.25 oz) of soft flour, 1 spoon of oil and 300 ml (10.14 oz) of milk. Mix it all together. DO NOT ADD SUGAR as the pancakes will get scorched / burned. Fry on a little oil in a pan. I see absolutely no reason to use dry mixes when you can make fresh good pancakes so easily. :thumbup:
 
SirScrapalot said:
We use the mix from The Cracker Barrel, and all it requires is that you add water. We use it because it makes better pancakes than any that I've had that are homemade. I don't know of any recipes for pre-made mixes like that, but I would be interested to see them too! :)
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I think that they use buttermilk instead of regular milk - which would give the pancakes a different flavor (richer, maybe?). I think that you can buy powdered buttermilk, so you might be able to approximate this recipe at home in a powdered mix.
 
I agree with you, Zora. Things generally taste better when they're made from scratch - and I've found that it's really not that difficult to make most things that way. I've also found it to be simpler to stock ingredients than a lot of different mixes and things. It makes grocery shopping easier and takes up less storage space in the kitchen :)
 
DeepGirl said:
I think it is so easy to take 3 eggs, 120 g (4.25 oz) of soft flour, 1 spoon of oil and 300 ml (10.14 oz) of milk. Mix it all together. DO NOT ADD SUGAR as the pancakes will get scorched / burned. Fry on a little oil in a pan. I see absolutely no reason to use dry mixes when you can make fresh good pancakes so easily. :thumbup:
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I think this must be one of those famous cultural differences. :-) Sorry, Tanyia, for spamming your thread, it's just made me muse a bit.
 
Wow..I actually am a great cook, I just prefer the taste of the pancakes from the mix. Tanyia, I'll let you know if I find a recipe. :)
 
thanks guys. I agree homemade is better for the most part which is why I like the convenience of having a premade homemade mix ready ... I imagine you can use powdered milk and they even have powdered egg whites, so I do not see why not... maybe I will have to experiment. hmmm...
 
If you have a Winco near you, they sell pancake mix in bulk for like .50 a lb, that's what we do and it's waaaay cheaper.
 
tanyiadeskins said:
thanks guys. I agree homemade is better for the most part which is why I like the convenience of having a premade homemade mix ready ... I imagine you can use powdered milk and they even have powdered egg whites, so I do not see why not... maybe I will have to experiment. hmmm...
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But, you know, real milk and eggs are way better than powdered, from all possible aspects. It kind of beats the purpose of home-made if you use powdered products... But you're perfectly right that you can mimic the industry's approach - you see, I didn't even know powdered egg whites were normally available for purchase. I didn't want to preach or anything, I was just wondering, that's all. Good luck with getting your mix right!
 
SirScrapalot said:
Wow..I actually am a great cook, I just prefer the taste of the pancakes from the mix. Tanyia, I'll let you know if I find a recipe. :)
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I didn't mean to imply you were a bad cook. :-) Maybe the mixes are better where you live, or you just have a different taste (which you most probably have, LOL). :-)
 
I make my pancakes and waffles from scratch...buttermilk, please.

But in Aaron's defense :D I have to say that Cracker Barrel's pancakes are really really good :) I've never bought their mix, but I usually pilfer a bite or two off of Rachel's plate when we go there for breakfast.
(and if you haven't had their whole wheat sourdough french toast....YUMMM)
 
We use the giant Krustees mix from Sams or Costco. I can't make them cheaper or better than that. I just add a dash of vanilla to the mix.
 
adrianka said:
But, you know, real milk and eggs are way better than powdered, from all possible aspects. It kind of beats the purpose of home-made if you use powdered products... But you're perfectly right that you can mimic the industry's approach - you see, I didn't even know powdered egg whites were normally available for purchase. I didn't want to preach or anything, I was just wondering, that's all. Good luck with getting your mix right!
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I do not think it beats the purpose of homemade... I am making it, at home, just choosing to make it in a way that works for a busy family so that there is always something on hand a ready to go ...
 
tanyiadeskins said:
I do not think it beats the purpose of homemade... I am making it, at home, just choosing to make it in a way that works for a busy family so that there is always something on hand a ready to go ...
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Totally one of the reasons we use mixes around here...on top of the fact that the Cracker Barrel one is the bomb....one isn't better than the other, it's just what you personally prefer...
 
OMG... I'm on vacay and didn't see this thread earlier... but totally had a craving for pancakes and made Mark take us to IHOP tonight... tho, if there were a Cracker Barrel around here we totally would have went there... Cracker Barrel is the best!!!
 
SirScrapalot said:
Totally one of the reasons we use mixes around here...on top of the fact that the Cracker Barrel one is the bomb....one isn't better than the other, it's just what you personally prefer...
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You actually make me wanna try that mix that you love, Aaron! I mean it. :-)))

On home-made - I tend to think of home-made as "made from fresh ingredients". Dried eggs don't count as fresh or healthy in my book, but I totally get the "you want to save time and still make it yourself" part. IMHO, making the actual dough doesn't take too much time (it's the frying part that takes long), but yeah, you have to have the ingredients at home and I can see how a mix (home-made or not) can save you some trouble. See, I wasn't criticizing, I was just wondering. And it's always interesting to learn something new and look at things from someone else's perspective. :-)
 
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