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Do people really, seriously eat pancakes for breakfast in the US?

Yep :) Every place that sells breakfast has them.

Yes, although generally they're a weekend treat rather than an everyday thing.

I more often eat them for dinner, but yes, people really seriously eat pancakes for breakfast.

Yes, they do. In Canada, too! (Mmm, maple syrup.)

Of course!

What time of day do you eat pancakes? Sometimes I'll feel like having breakfast for dinner and fixing myself eggs or pancakes for my evening meal, but it's still considered a breakfast food item.

Me and my family eat pancakes for dinner. But the pancakes we make are different from US pancakes. Ours are more like crepes, just not quite as yummy. :( (I want to buy a heating plate for crepes so badly, but that shit is expensive as hell. Not to mention huge and unwieldy. But making them in a frying pan is just not the same.)

Which does remind me, would you happen to have a recipe for American-style pancakes? I had some when I was in Japan and they were really tasty!

Ah, does that mean you eat them with fillings or toppings? Our breakfast pancakes can be eaten plain, with just syrup or butter, or with mix-ins/toppings.

Sure, this is the recipe I've used all my life from Betty Crocker -

1 egg
1 cup flour
3/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons melted butter or vegetable oil
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Beat all ingredients together. Spray griddle or frying pan with cooking spray and heat to medium (or 375 degrees, if using a griddle). Pour batter for whatever size/type pancake, let cook until edges begin to dry and bubbles appear on top, then flip and cook that side. Ta da! Pancakes. Top with butter or syrup of choice (or both).

A few variations - again, mixing stuff into the batter and then cooking is popular. Blueberries are one of the more popular things to add, but I love chocolate chips because I never stopped being eleven years old. Some people add stuff on top when they're done cooking, like strawberries and whipped cream or sliced bananas.

For buttermilk pancakes, swap one cup of buttermilk for the 3/4 cup milk and add an additional 1/2 tsp baking powder.

For a "healthier" option, swap out the flour for whole wheat flour.

Autumn's coming up, which means people will be adding pumpkin to just about everything - including pancakes. Pumpkin chocolate chip and walnut pancakes are the best.

And now I crave pancakes and I've already eaten dinner. Ffff...

Pardon me randomly jumping into this conversation, but here's my pancake recipe. Units are in cups and teaspoons; I don't know what units you typically use, but you can probably find conversions on the internet.

Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 Tablespoons white sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 egg
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil

-Stir together dry ingredients.
-Add milk, beaten egg, and oil.
-Heat griddle or skillet to medium heat and grease with a little butter.
-Pour or spoon about 1/4 cup (two or three spoonfuls) of batter onto hot griddle; let cook until the bottom of the pancake "sets" and bubbles start to form on top, then flip over with a pancake turner. Let cook until pancake is cooked through. Re-butter the griddle as needed to keep pancakes from sticking or burning.

Serve warm with your choice of butter, syrup, or fruit.

You can also do butter and instead of syrup, sprinkle some brown sugar between the cakes as you stack them on the plate - a little 'drier', but very tasty.

Some people use jam instead of syrup, too, or add a syrupy fruit sort of 'compote', like apples or strawberries in place of plain syrup. (Or with, but that's too sweet for me.)

If you look for a recipe for Scotch pancakes or drop scones, you'll find recipes in normal-looking units that use typical British ingredients that are basically American pancakes.

For lunch! We don't have such heavy food for dinner. Okay, I don't get big dinners at all, really. Lunches should be the latest you eat so much in a day. xD No wonder there are so many obese people in USA.

Yes, however, it is faster and easier to eat waffles. I tend to like waffles a bit more but pancakes are more of a "luxury" breakfast. If I'm eating them it means it's probably the weekend and I have the time to make them. It also means I'm probably going all out and having bacon/strawberries/etc. as well.

Not every day. But yes, they are considered a breakfast food. On the weekend, or whatever, if you go out for breakfast at a diner or a restaurant, they will nearly always have pancakes on the menu.

Not my favorite thing, honestly, but they're a fine breakfast food.

I'm from the UK, and I've always wondered if the US pancakes are more like Scotch pancakes here rather than 'proper' pancakes and if that's why we have an instinctive "for breakfast!!?" reaction.

I would (and do) totally enjoy Scotch pancakes at breakfast time but proper pancakes are deffo a dessert.

Okay. This is what I'm talking about when I say pancake. A little up it explains the differences between our pancakes.

Edited 2012-09-03 23:51 (UTC)

Also from that, if you've never had johnnycakes, have them

because they're amazing

Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Two)

greenvelvetcake - 2012-09-04 00:34 (UTC) - Expand

Yes.

It's not an everyday thing by any means, but it definitely is treated as a breakfast food. Nearly every restaurant that serves breakfast will have some type of pancake on the menu. When made at home, they're usually considered a weekend or special event breakfast (or, in our case, the breakfast of last resort when we don't have enough milk for everyone's cereal).

Note that the US definition of a pancake is different from that of other locales.

Yep. I don't get up early enough in the morning to make them as adulthood still eludes me, but it is a breakfast food of popularity.

Heck yeah! I make them most mornings, actually, although that probably makes me unusual. I make multi-grain pancakes and top them with fruit and it's so filling, I can go all the way to lunch without feeling hungry. I'm definitely one of those "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" folks!

...when else would you eat pancakes? They always seemed like a primarily breakfast food to me, and I don't live in the US.

I think English pancakes are the ones that look like larger, thicker version of crepes eaten rolled up with filling. So, a dinner food. Scottish pancakes on the other hand are more like US pancakes and they're breakfast food.

It depends on which pancake you're referring to.

well I always just lumped all pancakes, crepes, hotcakes etc in to one group of foods... I don't really know what the difference between those is! But okay. There's a dinner type of pancake. Now I know!

Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Two)

writerserenyty - 2012-09-04 05:50 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Two)

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Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Two)

hornpile - 2012-09-05 05:31 (UTC) - Expand

Yes! I love pancakes. For most people it's not an everyday food for breakfast (for my family it's something we have once in a while on weekends), but they're so good! We also have french toast and waffles for breakfast, but again it's not a usual thing.

Um. I'm British and I eat pancakes for breakfast. The only reason we had them in the evening on Shrove Tuesday was because the morning was too busy! Def. a breakfast food here for some people!

My favourite weekend breakfast atm is water pancakes. :D

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