What do you get when you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?
It is no longer October, but it is still time for all things pumpkin. Pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin beer, pumpkin cookies... pumpkin pancakes. Yay for clichés! I'm sort of surprised I didn't try these last year. This recipe comes from All Recipes, and I made some slight changes. Since you use vinegar + milk to make a buttermilk substitute, I used buttermilk instead. At the suggestion of a reviewer, I added 1/2 tsp nutmeg. I also did not measure the pumpkin carefully, so there was slightly more than one cup in there.
The verdict?
They are terrifically fluffy, although they could stand to have more of a pumpkin flavour. Really yummy with maple syrup and butter. The DC thought they had just the right amount of spice, and said "this is what pumpkin-flavoured stuff is supposed to taste like." The recipe says it will make 12 pancakes, and I got 12 using generous 1/4 cup scoops.
I forgot to spray the griddle (which I'm still happily accepting suggestions for on how to de-blacken it, btw), so it was a bit of an effort to flip the first ones. When I flipped the third one, I was trying to spray the pan when it slid off the spatula and landed, gooey side-down, on top of the unflipped fourth pancake. Once in a lifetime shot.
The observant reader will note that these were the pancakes I meant to make in October as my second pancake, but did not. I will make a second type this month, once I get out from under all this marking. I'm thinking chai.
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