I love summer fruit. Especially strawberries and raspberries. These definitely sounded like a good use of strawberries and lemon. The link includes a recipe for strawberry syrup that I highly recommend making with the pancakes.
I made the syrup first and it was really easy. I put everything in a saucepan and then cooked it for a bit.
After cooking it so the sugar dissolves, I first tried using a potato masher to mash the strawberries and combine everything since I didn't want to get out my blender. But it didn't work that well so I still ended up using the blender. After blending, I poured the syrup back into the saucepan to keep warm and thicken.
The pancakes weren't difficult to make either. I started with the dry ingredients:
And added the wet.
The batter seemed a bit thick, so they didn't come out nicely round and pretty. This could have been because I cut the recipe in half due to less than wonderful strawberries. Anyway, after cooking they looked like this:
For some reason, the syrup never really thickened up. However, these were surprisingly good. And the two recipes need each other, if you ask me. The pancakes are a bit on the tart side without the syrup and the syrup is a bit on the sweet side on it's own. But they're a refreshing shake up from regular pancakes that I'll definitely make again. 4 stars.
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