ON the topic of sourdough pancakes, if you can remember the Frugal Gourmet (before his trouble), he had a set of great cookbooks. In the one titled, The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American, which you can find in hardback for cheap at a used bookstore, there's a recipe I make for sourdough pancakes. You need to start a couple days in advance, and make a 'sourdough starter' using yeast, flour, and water. The idea is to let it go wild.
Then, when the soughdough starter is going good, and is gooey, you mix it with flour the night before, and get a good batter going. The next morning you make the pancake batter using the soughdough starter.
If you follow Jeff Smith's instructions, and cross your fingers, you can make these incriedable 1 - 1/2 inch thick sourdough pancakes. They are simply amazing.
Making these gems is a lot harder then Bisquick, but worth the work.
Alice