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Grand slam breakfast

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Ingredients
Method
Techniques
▶ 1:52
  • 140 g all-purpose flour
  • 30 g granulated sugar
  • ¼ tsp kosher salt
  • ¾ tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp baking soda
Combine the flour, sugar, kosher salt, baking powder and baking soda.
Buttermilk pancake batterWhisking
▶ 2:06
  • 3 tbsp melted unsalted butter
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 whole egg
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
Add the melted butter, room temperature buttermilk, egg and vanilla and whisk just until combined; the batter should be lumpy.
▶ 2:23
  • 2 tbsp milk
Thin with a couple of tablespoons of milk, mixing gently without losing the lumps.
▶ 2:41
Use a non-stick pan with no fat in it; fat is what makes the first pancake look swirly and off.
Why the first pancake is weird
▶ 3:16
Drop a heaping third of a cup of batter in the centre and cook until bubbles rise and the ones at the edges pop and leave holes that do not close, then flip.
▶ 3:51
Hold the cooked pancakes in a 200 degree oven while the rest cook.
▶ 4:09
  • bacon
  • sausage
Cook the bacon and sausage in the same pan.
Bacon, sausage, eggs and the plate
▶ 4:22
  • 2 whole eggs
Fry the eggs sunny side up in the remaining bacon fat.
▶ 4:44
  • butter
  • real maple syrup
Plate the eggs flanked by the pancakes with the bacon and sausage, a pad of butter and maple syrup.