Today: How do you make a tall stack of pancakes ... baking powder––the most commonly sold version). Without buttermilk, pancake batter no longer contains enough acid to react with baking soda ...

This week's recipe is for buttermilk pancakes found on a Kemps carton. That's right, pancakes made from scratch ... and mixing flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt, there is this ...

Back then, I'd make pancakes from a box, using Aunt Jemima's pancake mix. I've since realized that it's not much harder to make pancakes from scratch ... the left has no baking soda.

Grandma’s from-scratch pancakes ... No buttermilk? No problem. Besides giving the pancakes a nice tang, the acid in the buttermilk helps activate the baking soda, creating fluffy pancakes.