March 1, 2022 is Tuesday and Pancake Tuesday. This is the day, traditionally, that Western Christian households would clear out their cupboards prior to the fasting period of Lent. We also reckon it is a great excuse to make these delicious buttermilk pancakes and serve them with the world’s best maple syrup from Quebec in Canada. Escuminac is made by Martin Malenfant who founded his own erabliere, the Quebecois French for a sugar bush or what we would describe as a maple plantation. Each year he taps 65,000 trees to produce this exquisite maple syrup. It is perfect on these buttermilk pancakes. Remember the secret to light and fluffy pancakes is to mix the batter slowly and gently to stop the gluten from forming.
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