Thanks for this post -- it brought back an amusing memory of my mother! My late mother (a great cook, but not a great baker) liked my light and! fluffy pancakes so well, that she asked me for the recipe. After she made them for the first time, she called me up and accused me of leaving some key ingredient/step out of the recipe because hers turned out as heavy as bricks. As it turned out, she made two mistakes: 1. She mashed the pancakes with a spatula after she flipped them -- if you want light and fluffy, don't squeeze the air out of the poor things! 2. The baking powder she used dated back to when I was in high school (I was 40 at the time when she attempted the pancakes). Just like all of us, baking powder loses its oomph when it gets old!

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