APPLESAUCE PANCAKES
There are endless ways to gussy up pancakes, but most involve dropping some type of fruit, berry, chocolate, or the like into the top of a pancake already on the griddle. This approach is a notable exception inasmuch as the fruit goes into the batter as it is being prepared.
- 1 cup of your favorite store-bought pancake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- ¼ stick of butter, melted
- 2 cups of applesauce
- ½ cup of buttermilk or enough to make a smooth batter
Blend all ingredients together by beating briskly with a whisk. If the batter is too stiff, add a bit more buttermilk; if too watery, add a bit more pancake mix. Pour pancakes atop a well-greased griddle. Turn only once.
TIP: For a crunchy, nutty taste, add a ½ cup of chopped pecans.
JC
—Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food written by Jim Casada and Tipper Pressley
We love pancakes! Sometimes we even have them for supper.
I like bacon and scrambled eggs with my pancakes 🙂
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Last night’s video: We Started Our Tomatoes and Matt is Looking Forward to the First Sandwich.
Tipper
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We love these applesauce pancakes! I usually double this recipe but keep the applesauce amounts the same. We also mill fresh ground hard white wheat flour right before mixing them up. My children enjoy them with some fresh fruit and maple syrup. Thanks for the recipe!!
I toss in a couple tablespoons of peach cider vinegar. Gives a nice peach flavor to the pancakes you get from a pancake mix…
I don’t make pancakes often. We prefer waffles with sugar-free syrup. I make my own applesauce in small batches (my canning days are behind me), so I think I will try waffles with applesauce in the batter. How bad could it be? We most often have waffles for dinner and re-heat leftovers in the toaster oven for breakfast. Always with bacon.
Interesting! We don’t use syrup on our pancakes because of the sugar content. I usually top them with my home canned unsweetened applesauce, which has been heated to help melt the butter. Sometimes we top them with yogurt.
I can’t wait to try this recipe incorporating the applesauce into the batter.
Absolutely love pancakes for breakfast, dinner or supper as we sometimes refer to last meal of the day. With the pancakes I’ll have sugar free applesauce over them. I’ll fix sausage or bacon, for my husband, I’ll not eat the meat but love some eggs over easy on the side. The whites totally cooked and the yolks a creamy yellow, to daub up my pancakes in. Once in a while I’ll fry up Spam. The best ?meat? with the pancakes for me. With left over pancakes I’ll put a piece of mild cheddar and Spam in between 2 small pancakes. Yummy to me. Wish I had a small jar of Miss Louzine’s kraut. Sounds delicious. Missing her too, but glad she’s no longer suffering. Have a blessed Easter everyone and God bless y’all today, tomorrow and always. Praise the Lord Almighty. Always, forever and beyond. PS: I’m going to try your applesauce pancakes. They sound mighty tasty to me. Thanks, Have a Good Easter and Love to y’all Miss Tipper, Matt, Paul, Katie, Corie, Austin, Ira and Woody.
Hi Tipper and Acorns. I remember my Daddy making us Silver Dollar/Baby Pancakes for Supper sometimes on the weekends when he wasn’t overseas in the Army. We loved them. We have pancakes anytime. I like making Teddy Bears or Bunnies. When I was a nurse every nursing home I ever worked in served them every week on Saturday Night. All the residents couldn’t wait; I think it was the syrup. LOL. Bless them. I loved the Tomato Seed Starting video. TY for the recipe. Tonight we are having leftover Chili and crackers. Praise GOD for this beautiful Day. Charles, my son, slept thru most of the past two days. TY all for your prayers. It helps so much. I keep everyone here and up Wilson Holler in my prayers. I love y’all.
Mama made pancakes on Sunday mornings. Sometimes, she would add blueberries. There were other times she would fry extra bacon and pour the pancake batter and lay a cooked bacon strip in the center while the pancake cooked. That was so good with syrup. Here at home, we enjoy pancakes for supper along with eggs, sausage or bacon. When my mother-in-law was still cooking, she liked to invite everyone over on a weeknight and we would have pancakes, eggs, ham, bacon, sausage, grits, biscuits and applesauce. It was a feast and so delicious!
Oh, I forgot this. My moms father ate an apple a day and rubbed the skin on his teeth. My mom said he died with perfect teeth. He also slept on a mattress stuffed with corn husks. He owned the towns only store, he could afford a mattress. He chose cornhusks. Anna from Arkansas.
Morning everyone. Tipper, I’ve said it before. You read my mind. I got up this morning saying I ‘m making my dad’s apple pancakes. Coffee and Blind Pig first. Growing up we didn’t have pancakes like Americans do. Ours were thin like “crepes”. My mom rolled them up with something inside. Me, I chopped them up with syrup on top. After I had kids, I made the regular kinds. Two of my kids don’t seem to care for pancakes. The son that lives with me does like them. His favorite of course is grand pa’s. I don’t know if anyone has grown rhubarb. My son has 15 that have sprouted. He asked me last night if that’s enough for a pie. He was serious. He is also growing horseradish, I like horseradish. Can you freeze horseradish? Anna from Arkansas.
pancakes yum! Do you do your waffles with the batter as well? I remember that you made waffles on the you tube. I have not got a waffle maker but I do pancakes and put a variety of sugar free things on them since I am diabetic. I haven’t put anything in the batter before. People are putting applesauce in place of oil in their reciepe. I can eat most anything for lunch and dinner but very picky about breakfast. Trying to loose weight and It’s not easy.
Craig, I haven’t tried it with waffles 🙂
When I was growing up, when we had pancakes for supper, mom added corn to the batter. Made them more savory in her mind. I liked that flavor with the bacon, of course, and Karo syrup. It was many years before I knew folks ate real maple syrup and I wish someone would have told me sooner!
Pancakes were a part of my family tree diet for as far back as I can remember and served with a variety of sides depending on the meal – sometimes with added oats, or cornmeal – but they were never made with a mix. Everything cooked was always from ‘scratch’ so I never turned to mixes for any cooking or baking in all my years either, but I did make a lot of pancakes, and we ate them hot or cold – using them as one would bread to make a sandwich. A good versatile food.
Growing up we ate our pancakes with Karo syrup. I don’t remember ever having other things mixed in. As an adult I like blueberries in my pancakes, maybe with a little Karo syrup on top, LOL!
I like pancakes, but I prefer waffles because I like the crispness of the outside with a fluffy inside. Bacon is a must either way! I can take or leave the eggs though.
Good morning Tipper, growing up pancakes was an easy meal for supper, I rarely remember having them for breakfast. I still enjoy having them for supper, always with an egg.
Life has been so busy lately that I’m two weeks late getting all my bedding plants started, I’m hoping I can start them on Thursday. Tipper, I bought cherokee purple tomato seeds 3-4 years ago from Amazon and absolutely love them. They will be a staple in the garden from now on. I also like primo red and a Roma, definitely sunsugar. It’s hard to get excited about gardening when there is still a foot of snow on the ground and still in the negative numbers, day and night. (It’s snowing right now) It looks like temperatures will start to be in the pluses this week. Have a great day everyone!
Once again I’m the oddball. I don’t like pancakes. The last time I remember eating any was in Pigeon Forge about 40 years ago. I didn’t like them then and I also didn’t like Pigeon Forge.
Why would you buy a mix when all you need is plain flour, baking powder and salt? I’ve made my own mix to make pancakes for my family. They didn’t notice a difference.
Mmm. . . the pancakes look delicious.
Applesauce pancakes look delicious and I’m certain they are. I think apples are the fruit of all fruit! They’re great for teeth, nutrition and taste mostly sweet and have a wonderful smell too! My brother eats even the core of apples. He has the whitest and nicest teeth you ever saw. (He’s been chewing tobacco, though, so maybe his teeth ain’t as PURTY as they were.) Do you know what a bus load of West Virginians is? It’s a FULL set of teeth. The toothbrush was invented in WV because if was invented in another state, it would be a TEETH brush (meaning more than one.) Now I’m from WV so I’m used to the teeth jokes, but I have most all my teeth probably 29 or 30… lol If we laugh more we cry less. Yall come on over and let’s have breakfast for supper and top it off with applesauce pancakes!!! (I was in at whipped cream.) Have a blessed day all!!!! Looks like a mild one here in Va with a dab of rain maybe later. I got “wintered” dang near to death!!! My brass almost froze…
If it’s rough applesauce, applesauce that has a few “chunks” still left, you’re going to get something that’s halfway to being an apple fritter, but there wouldn’t be anything wrong with that.
I have Celiac disease and should eat GF but I’m don’t always. I have found Bob’s Red Mill pancake mix and it is delicious! You can’t tell it’s gluten free. That’s one of the very few things GF that is good and not twice the price. Have a wonderful day! Blessings
Richard
I love pancakes! Sounds so good.
Yum! Pancakes! I haven’t had breakfast yet. I believe I will make pancakes. Thanks for the recipe.
Yummy! These sound delicious! I love breakfast for supper and I’ll be trying this recipe. I hope everyone has a great Easter week! Take heart! He has risen, just as he said. Matthew 28:6
My family likes pancakes. I like sausage patties better than bacon with mine. I make mine using the store bought Pioneer baking mix, I like it better than Bisquick. I bought a variety of 5 tomato plants to set out, my son found me some Mountain Pride at the jockey lot Saturday but I am going to wait a little longer until after Easter to set them out. We had a big frost yesterday morning . I am glad I covered up my Grandmother’s peony, it has big buds on it and is ready to bloom.