if there is a shortage of an item in the store have you decided to make it from scratch? (ingredients, yellow cake)

[lubby]

I noticed pancake mix, Bisquick ect. not available since the Covid-19 stay at home Order 1 month ago I decided to make my own dry pancake mix. Let me tell you it's better than the boxed stuff and I know what is going in it and there is no crud ingredients. The other day I was in the isle where they sell pancake mix to buy maple syrup. One customer was annoyed there was not any pancake mix. I said make your own take 5 minutes, then store it in an air tight container. They were like I can't be bothered and I am not a good cook. How can you screw up pancakes?

[Flamingo13]

Would you post the recipe in the recipe thread? TIA

[Gorges]

dh is trying to make yeast using raisins. We're on Day 4.

[Debsi]

I agree it should be the same, and I would make my own as you did if necessary, but to be honest, the Krusteaz instant pancake mix turns out better and fluffier than any I’ve made homemade. Ymmv.

[Jkgourmet]

I'm putting all the bills and useless crap that comes in the mail into my food processor and making toilet paper.

[gentlearts]

I make Aretha Frankenstein pancake mix, but for weeks the store was out of buttermilk. I succumbed to the temptation on BOGO chocolate chip pancake mix, made with water, but they were way too sweet for us, so I was forced to make pancakes from scratch. Such a strain.

Things are looking up. Today I bought buttermilk and scored some Cottonelle.

[gentlearts]

Originally Posted by Debsi

I agree it should be the same, and I would make my own as you did if necessary, but to be honest, the Krusteaz instant pancake mix turns out better and fluffier than any I’ve made homemade. Ymmv.

Yes, I liked the texture, too, but the chocolate chip ones were a mistake.

[bpollen]

Originally Posted by lubby

I noticed pancake mix, Bisquick ect. not available since the Covid-19 stay at home Order 1 month ago I decided to make my own dry pancake mix. Let me tell you it's better than the boxed stuff and I know what is going in it and there is no crud ingredients. The other day I was in the isle where they sell pancake mix to buy maple syrup. One customer was annoyed there was not any pancake mix. I said make your own take 5 minutes, then store it in an air tight container. They were like I can't be bothered and I am not a good cook. How can you screw up pancakes?

I don't eat those things now (too fattening), but I have in the past.

You know those things are not really mixes, as such. It's more like they just measured out the flour for you and put it in a box, then added the baking powder/soda for you, and charged you extra for doing that. Same thing w/cake mix.

Ingredients for Bisquick: Enriched Flour Bleached (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and/or Cottonseed Oil, Leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), Dextrose, Salt. (translation: Flour, baking soda, salt, a little oil)

For a few pennies, you can use your own flour & baking soda.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

I make most things from scratch. It's not nobility, it's food allergies.


I had to find a recipe for hoisin that didn't contain gluten in order to make a Chinese barbecue sauce, which was also home made.


I've never made pancakes from a mix, but I actually hear fairly often from people who can't get pancakes to turn out. I admit, it mystifies me, but there you go; different cooks have trouble with different things.

[Hedgehog_Mom]

I make everything from scratch because of food allergies. I even have to mix my own baking powder.

The only thing I miss is white or yellow cake mix. I haven't found a good recipe for those yet.