GrandDaddy's Pancakes

ingredients

1 cup flour
1 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 whole egg
1 cup buttermilk
1 Tbsp. bacon grease
1/2 to 1 cup washed and culled blueberries

directions

1
Mix dry ingredients in large bowl, while your sous-chef is frying bacon crispy and brown, and saving the bacon grease. Crack the egg into a cup, removing any errant shell. Add this to a well in the dry mix, and then add the buttermilk, stirring just a few strokes to barely moisten the dry mix – lumpy is better.
2
Stir in the bacon grease, and finally add the blueberries, stirring gently.
3
Note that this recipe uses just one (1) measure of each ingredient, only the size of the measure varies. I usually make four times the recipe, i.e., 1 quart buttermilk, 1 lb. bacon and 1 box blueberries.
4
Heat the griddle to cooking temperature: a drop of batter or water will sizzle when it’s ready. Grease lightly with bacon grease. If the batter is too stiff, add a little more buttermilk. Pancake is ready to turn when bubbles appear at the surface and before many of them break. The second side browns in less time. Scrape and grease the griddle lightly again between each set of cakes.

notes

Cook all of the batter. Any leftover cakes can be layered with wax paper and frozen in plastic bags. They will keep a long time in the freezer and will come out almost like new from the toaster oven.

Source: Tom Ford ("GrandDaddy")