Cherry Pancakes

More cherry deliciousness. We've been in a breakfast rut, so I'm trying to add some variety. Yesterday was cherry muffins. This morning was cherry pancakes. (Still maybe 10lbs left.) This recipe is adapted from Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions.

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 Cup GF flour (today: 1/2 cup sorghum & 1/2 cup brown rice)
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1 cup rice milk
  
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup pitted sweet dark cherries
  

DIRECTIONS:

1. Mix together dry ingredients.
2. In a separate bowl, beat egg, adding milk & vanilla.
3. Add wet ingredients to dry, mix well.
4. Add cherries last and just stir to mix. Today, I just cut the cherries in half and took out the pit. These cherries were too big. Next time, I will either chop them up after I pit them, or, I mix blend/process them with the rice milk first, depending on the texture I want.
5. Heat pan and lightly oil (or use non-stick pan).
6. Pour one Tablespoon of batter into each corner, or around edge. We can fit four pancakes on our square griddle at a time.
7. Flip over when bubbles form and edges brown.
   

We serve ours with coconut oil and maple syrup.

Yield: roughly 24 sand-dollar-sized pancakes.

Alternatives:

• instead of an egg, you could use 1 Tbsp ground flax meal mixed with 3 Tbsp water, whisked together and popped into the microwave (or heated on the stove) until boiling. Allow to cool and you have "flax meal gel" that you can very successfully use as an egg replacer in baked goods.
• instead of rice milk, you could use almond milk. Cherries and almonds go GREAT together.
  
• you can easily omit vanilla extract. Or substitute with almond extract.

[One final note: per Fallon's recipe, instead of rice milk, you should use yogurt or butter milk poured over the flour (and mix) and let sit overnight ~8 - 12hrs. If you can't use dairy, you can use water or rice milk or whatever and add a Tbsp of lemon juice or vinegar to sour. I have yet to try this, mostly because I never remember before we go to bed. Perhaps I will try to soak our flour overnight, tonight and try the pancakes again in the morning.]