Johnnycakes

Name: Johnnycakes
Ingredients: 4 teaspoons baking powder; 100 g plain flour; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons caster sugar; 150 g fine cornmeal or polenta; 150 g fine cornmeal or polenta; 300 ml milk; 2 large eggs; 30 g butter, melted

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

Johnnycakes are pancakes – or griddlecakes, really – made with the addition of cornmeal, one of the great indigenous American ingredients. I love these eaten sweet with maple syrup or as part of a butch brunch with sausages, bacon and eggs.

Ingredients

150 g fine cornmeal or polenta
100 g plain flour
4

Breakfast
Vegetarian

Method

Stir together the dry ingredients in one bowl; in another (big) bowl, whisk the eggs and milk. Then gradually beat in the dry ingredients and when combined stir in the melted butter. Heat an oiled griddle or pan and drop, one by one, tablespoonfuls of the batter on the hot surface to make little pancakes about 6cm in diameter.

After 1–2 minutes, the top of each yellow pool of batter wil