Spelt Buttermilk Pancakes With Pear Butter

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Hearty and wholesome, these pancakes are an particularly bully enactment erstwhile you're successful a breakfast-for-dinner framework of mind.

It’s champion to usage a level griddle (preferably ample capable to acceptable implicit 2 burners), but these tin beryllium cooked successful a ample cast-iron skillet arsenic well.

Serve with softened salted food and lukewarm sorghum syrup.

The adust pancake ingredients tin beryllium sifted unneurotic and kept successful an airtight instrumentality astatine a chill country temperature. The batter tin beryllium made an hr successful beforehand (leave astatine a chill country temperature). The pear food tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 2 weeks oregon frozen for up to 1 month.

From Arthur Ringel, cook and co-owner of DC Harvest successful Northeast Washington.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 5-6 (makes 15 to eighteen 4 1/2-inch pancakes and 4 cups pear butter)

For the pear butter

3 pounds ripe pears, peeled, cored and chopped into 1/2-inch dice
3 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoonful caller citrus juice
1/2 spoon crushed ginger
1/2 spoon kosher salt
Pinch freshly grated nutmeg

For the pancakes

2 cups spelt flour, preferably Bob's Red Mill brand
1 cupful whole-wheat flour
3/4 spoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 1/2 tablespoons evaporated cane foodstuff sweetener (may substitute granulated sugar)
3 ample eggs, preferably organic
3 cups buttermilk
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (using low-fat buttermilk)

Calories
610
Fat
29 g
Saturated Fat
17 g
Carbohydrates
71 g
Sodium
580 mg
Cholesterol
160 mg
Protein
16 g
Fiber
11 g
Sugar
22 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Arthur Ringel, cook and co-owner of DC Harvest successful Northeast Washington.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published October 28, 2015

Updated March 15, 2026