Ed's Overnight Sourdough Waffles or Pancakes

Folks-

Waffle is kind of a fun word, isn't it? Waffle. 

In any case, I've been looking for a good, crisp, tasty waffle recipe for years without success. They always come out limp from my highly-rated Belgian waffle iron. So I finally started to look up what made a waffle crisp, which appears to be vegetable oil in the batter, eggs, and baking soda. Then, after working with the Sourdough Crumpet recipe, I decided it was time to make my own waffle recipe from the beginning. Waffle,

This is not a waffle recipe I waffled together from someone else's waffle recipe; I waffled this one together on my own. Waffle!

The cool thing is this recipe was rather easily adapted to pancakes. I'll include the modifications in the notes.

Waffle.

Ingredients: 

100g Sourdough Starter Discard

310g All-purpose flour

250g water

3 eggs, beaten

3/4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

3 tbsp sugar

1/4 tsp salt

1/3 cup vegetable oil

The night before mix together sourdough starter discard, flour, and water and set on the counter loosely covered to ferment 8-12 hours until active and bubbly. Do not over mix. Batter should be lumpy. The next morning start heating the waffle iron, then mix together the remaining dry ingredients, and beat the eggs. Add the oil to the eggs and give a quick whisk. Fold the egg mixture and dry ingredients into the sourdough leavening and allow to sit for a couple of minutes for the baking powder and baking soda to activate. Bake in your waffle iron per manufacturer directions.

Notes: You can serve these immediately from the waffle iron, or if you want to have a sit-down breakfast with everyone at once, heat the oven to about 200-300 degrees, turn it off, and then place the finished waffles directly on the oven rack or a cooling rack placed in the oven. Do not stack them on top of each other or they become soggy.

To convert this to a pancake recipe, use 2 eggs instead of 3, 2 tbsp of sugar instead of 3, and 3 tbsp of melted butter (cooled to just liquid) instead of 1/3 cup vegetable oil. Everything else is the same.

Waffle.

From Scratch Pancakes

 Folks-

You know recipes come in clusters by now!

So, I’d been watching my YouTube feed, and saw a recipe for scratch made pancakes from Epicurious. Since I had today off, and I already had the ingredients, I decided to make this.

My wife said I had to save the recipe, so after writing it down, here it is!

Ingredients:

3c flour

1/4c sugar

1 1/2tsp salt

1 tbsp baking powder

1 1/2tsp baking soda

2 1/4c milk

1/4c vegetable oil

1tbsp vanilla

1/4c apple cider vinegar

3 eggs

Butter

Chocolate chips (optional)

Mix together dry ingredients. Mix together wet ingredients. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and just barely fold together. Batter will be thick and lumpy. Grease skillet or griddle with a fair amount of butter (tablespoons). When griddle is hot and butter is melted, spoon batter onto it, and sprinkle chocolate chips on them. Flip when bubbles pop.

Notes: [9/1/25] I tried to halve the recipe this morning, messed up some of the proportions, and it still came out good. So for future reference, you can double the oil and sugar, and two eggs are fine in a half batch (I reduced the milk to 1 cup to compensate.)

I managed to get everything else right.

I may try to make this adding dried cranberries, cutting the vinegar and milk in half, and substituting orange juice in to make up the difference in wet ingredients.