Gluten-free pancakes

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One of my old friends came to stay at the weekend. I’ve known him about 25 years and one of the things we used to do most often was cook together. However he recently discovered that he has a gluten intolerance. You may have read in some of my posts about my experiments with gluten-free cookery for various reasons, so when he told me of his condition it wasn’t such a big deal as it would have been otherwise because I already had a range of suitable ingredients in stock. Dinner was easy as we had pilaff, followed by a gluten-free peach and redcurrant cake using a recipe I made for a friend a while ago. Breakfast was a bit more tricky though as we usually have toast or cereal, most of which are wheat based and we had used up all the cornflakes! I thought it would be porridge or eggs, until he suggested pancakes. So we made up some of our usual recipe but just using gluten-free plain flour. The result was pretty good, they cooked just like normal and tasted nice, although a bit different to the regular ones. Even Little One said they were acceptable and ate them up just as usual! The biggest difference was that the mixture never really combined properly, each time I made a pancake I had to whisk the mix up again because the flour seemed to settle to the bottom. Anyway I was glad we tried because although they won’t be a regular thing (I prefer the flavour of the ordinary pancakes and anyway gluten-free flour is much more expensive) at least I know we have a suitable option if the same situation arises again. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2022.