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Mix flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar: In a medium-size mixing bowl, whisk together all your dry ingredients
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Mix milk, eggs, and melted butter: In a separate bowl, whisk together all of the wet ingredients until the egg is broken up.
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Combine the wet and dry:Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.
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Gently stir them together until you stop seeing flour.
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Be careful not to over mix, that will make the batter tough.
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Leave a few lumps for tender pancakes.
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Preheat the pan: Place your pan over a medium-high flame and let the surface get hot.
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It' hot enough when you sprinkle a few droplets of water over the surface and they evaporate.
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Oil the pan: Moisten a paper towel with vegetable oil and lightly wipe the bottom of the pan.
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This will keep the pancakes from sticking.
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Prepare the sacrifice: It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the universe that the first pancake is always a disaster.
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Accept it and move on to pancake number 2.
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For each pancake, gently pour 1/2 cup of batter into the pan, using a ladle or a measuring cup.
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Use the back of a spoon to spread the batter into a circle.
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Wait:Watch the pancakes carefully.
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Bubbles will form in the batter.
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When they begin to pop, the pancakes are ready to be flipped.
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Turn over gently with the spatula and cook for about one minute on the flip side.
