Buckwheat pancakes

Harvey 2

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Does anyone like buckwheat pancakes?
Its getting almost impossible to find them in restaurants, and grocery stores. Aunt Jemiah quit selling them years ago, the brand that is avaiable now isn't as good. Years ago the Perkins chain of restaurants had them on the menu, along with maple syrup, blueberry syrup and apricot syrup, they were good.
 
I haven't seen buckwheat flour or pancake mix for years. Wanted to get a few bushels for a green manure/cover crop a few years back. My seed supplier couldn't find any. Does anyone still raise it?

Makes a course, hearty tasting flapjack. Wouldn't want it all the time, but nice for a change of pace.
 
Love 'em! Yeh, hard to find buckwheat flour anymore. West Virginia grows a lot of buckwheat, though. I stock up every time I am there, though less frequent now. Wally- World sells a buckwheat mix, though, as you said, not as good as home-grown. Wife does not like them, but I can still make my own, deliciuos with maple syrup on a cold winter morn!!
 
Theres a local guy in Charles Town WV that sells buck wheat,He has a mill and hit-miss motor he uses at our local fair

jimmy
 
Thanks for all the replys.
I do raise buckwheat as a cover crop in my garden, but have never harvested any,my wife doesn't like them either.
The feed mill where I get mine buys them in Louisville, Ky., I think they come from somewhere in Ohio.
 
Hogdson Mill makes buckwheat hot cereal, I love it, but can't find it very often and now not at all. Wally World had the last I found.
 
My Mother used to make buckwheat pancakes for us when we were small. I haven't had any in decades and do miss them.

Dean
 
One of the reasons you don"t see any main stream buckwheat is that about 10% of the population is allergic to it (I"m part of that 10% - big time reaction to only a little). It"s too bad because it is a very good food grain, grows well in poor soils and it great as a cover crop to crowd out weeds. I have used buckwheat seed for cover crops and am not allergic to the seed - only if I eat something with buckwheat in it.
 
Sign me up, I actually like Hodgson Mill mix. I add up to 50% wheat bran , use buttermilk instead of milk. add a little baking powder and ground up walnuts. I follow directions on box other wise.
Same recipe for waffles or pan cakes.
 
Good pancakes from buckwheat. Small local ( NW N.C. ) flour mill makes buckwheat flour. Also wheat flour, both plain and self rising , also cornmeal. Guy at mill told me he gets calls from many states from people wanting it mailed to them but he doesn't have time and labor resources to do so. The mill gets its supply of buckwheat shipped in bags on pallets from South Dakota and I think, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
 
I make one big batch every week, I cook them all up and freeze the leftovers, works great! I was told you have to use some wheat as buckwheat doesn't raise, so I use 75% whole wheat, 25% buckwheat, and buttermilk, as regular milk bothers me. This together with all the normal ingredients for pancakes works well. Harmony foods in Bemidji has buckwheat flour in bulk. The family that bought my parents farm has raised some buckwheat, had a good year last year!
 
I use to plant buckwheat on my garden. Good for smothering weeds then I till them under. I think Denny's in our area has buckwheat pancakes. They serve breakfast almost all day.
They also have a free meal for veterans on Veteran's Day. So does the Golden Corral have a free meal on Veteran's Day. Hal
 
Other than pancakes, several have mentioned that buckwheat makes a good cover crop to turn under. Another good use also is for honeybees. They love it! Dad said my Grandad used to plant a band of it around the edges of some of his fields. He had about two dozen stands of bees.
 
Neighbor raised buckwheat a few times. For some reason, he trucked it to Canada to sell it.

It smells really bad when it is blooming; drive past a field in full bloom and you'll swear a closed building full of manure 3 feet deep smells better than that field.
 
For anyone looking for buckwheat pancake flour- look up New Hope Mills (newhopemills.com). I think they have it so you can order online.
 

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