This old-fashioned buckwheat pancake recipe is delicious and flavorful, and perfect for those with food allergies as it is gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, and also free of refined sugars! This was likely unintentional, as this is a 1920's recipe, so it was more based on frugality than trying to avoid specific ingredients. If you didn't have your own chickens or cows, you likely couldn't afford to buy milk and eggs (or keep them fresh), and whole wheat flour didn't store particularly well, so buckwheat was often a better choice.
This recipe takes advantage of the age-old miracle of fermentation to create light, fluffy, and flavorful pancakes, but it's a great fit for the busy modern world, too. Just whip up your batter the night before, let it sit overnight, and you can have a healthy breakfast on the table in the morning in under 10 minutes!
Save a cup of the batter (you can keep in the fridge), and just add to it the next day (and so on) to make your pancakes. It's a quick and easy way to make pancakes every day of the week if you want!