Buckwheat pancakes with starter discards
Hello!
So a couple weeks ago, I began and have been maintaining my first sourdough culture, which has fortunately made some good bread so far. I saved a couple days' worth of discards, chilled at 50F. I found a few recipes both on this site and others for starter-based pancakes, but the ones I saw, all call for a preferment. Well, tonight I had a craving for pancakes and didn't want to wait, so I loosely followed the sourdough starter pancake recipe on the KAF web site. For the bulk of the flour, instead of all-purpose, I used fresh milled buckwheat. No buttermilk was handy, so I used plain whole milk. Used the whisk tool in my stand mixer to mix it together. Initially it was too liquid, so I spooned in some AP flour to thicken it up a bit. That's it, instant pancakes! :)
I didn't get much of a sourdough flavor, probably due to the lack of prefermenting, but they still tasted very good.
I like my pancakes with peanut butter and syrup! Yum!