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Mark's Eggless Pancakes -- Terrible!

Summary: There is a recipe for eggless pancakes circulating on the Internet that, as published, calls for an absurd amount of baking soda. The results are terrible. It is likely that some of the baking soda is meant to be baking powder.

Lacking eggs but wanting to make pancakes, my wife and I Googled "eggless pancakes", which turned up several copies of the same recipe: Mark Satterly's Eggless Pancakes, supposedly based on an idea from the Toronto Vegetarian Food Fair of September 1993. Something struck us as odd about the recipe: in the ingredients list there is a line for 2 tablespoons of baking soda followed immediately by another for 1 teaspoon of baking soda. Normally, when the same ingredient is listed twice in a recipe it is because that ingredient is used in different places in the recipe (odd measurements might be listed on one line like "2T + 1t baking soda"). Here, however, all the dry ingredients are added at once. Furthermore, normal pancake recipes call for about 2 teaspoons of baking powder and perhaps a smaller amount of baking soda. Looking at other copies of the recipes and finding no corrections, we proceeded (skeptically) with the recipe as given. The resulting pancakes looked nice, but tasted like one would expect a mouthful of baking soda to taste.

I decided to use my modest page rank for good to warn people about this recipe. We hypothesize that the 2 tablespoons of baking soda should instead be baking powder, and perhaps only 2 teaspoons (update: my little sister, a former vegan, says she has made acceptable pancakes using 2 teaspoons of baking powder in a similar recipe). We are not likely to experiment with this recipe since we are not vegan, but we would be interested in hearing if it can be corrected.