Jacques Pépin makes buttermilk pancakes

Premiere: 9/4/2020 | 00:03:03 |

"Very often, especially during the holidays, I buy cream—and very often I have cream left over. After a week or so I put that cream in the food processor and make butter—we can always use butter. And of course, with the butter you also get buttermilk. Occasionally I will use the buttermilk to make pancakes, which is easy to do. I serve them with whatever fruit I happen to have around."

About the Episode

Makes 6 pancakes

Ingredients:

1/2 cup flour
¼ teaspoon baking powder
½ cup buttermilk
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon sugar
pinch salt
1 large egg
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon butter

To serve:

1/3 cup maple syrup
8-10 grapes, halved
powdered sugar, for dusting

Method:

Combine the flour, baking powder, buttermilk, vanilla and sugar and whisk into a smooth batter.

Heat the oil and butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Pour batter, about 3-4 tablespoons per pancake, into the skillet and cook, about 1 ½ minutes on each side.

While the pancakes are cooking, cut the grapes in half and drizzle with maple syrup.

To serve: arrange pancakes on a plate, spoon over the grapes and drizzle with maple syrup.

QUOTE

"I feel that if Jacques Pépin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That’s God talking. "

— Anthony Bourdain

TRANSCRIPT

TRANSCRIPT

(soft upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Chef Jacques Pépin, and this is American Masters At Home.

And now I'm going to make buttermilk pancake.

Okay 1/2 a cup of buttermilk, 1/2 a cup of flour, 1 egg, a little dash of vanilla, and maybe a 1/4 a teaspoon at the most of baking powder.

Okay, I'll put it back in there.

It's gotta be easier for me to do the pancake with this.

And now I have a tablespoon of oil and a tablespoon of butter here, oh, and a dash of sugar in there, I'll put.

I put about Three, four tablespoon.

I can do them smaller, bigger, they cook a couple of minutes on each side.

And usually we serve that with a bit of maple syrup.

Sometime I put raspberry, strawberry here.

I'm putting a couple of grapes, why?

Because I have a couple of grape here, I don't want them to get spoiled.

So maybe I'll put a couple of those with this, cut them in half maybe.

Here we are, with a bit of maple syrup.

That's gonna be a nice garnish.

Let's see my pancake now.

Okay, here it is.

That's it, okay, well they're about cooked, well, they are brown on this side, on both side.

Oh, three will probably be a lot.

Maybe a little bit of this in the middle, a bit of the syrup around.

You can even put a dash of powder sugar on top, and that's it.

And this is my buttermilk pancake, enjoy it, and happy cooking.