Perfectly good pancakes made with just s/r flour and water, and they cost 1p each!

[Breadandwine]

No need for eggs and milk - I've been making these pancakes for several years now, and everyone enjoys them:

nobreadisanisland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/pancakes-using-just-flour-and-water.html

For some reviews of these, scroll down to the foot of the post.

Soda bread - a loaf made with 200g of flour will cost you around 10p.
Dumplings
Pizza crust
Pasta
Tempura
Sourdough
Naan bread
And more.

OP you probably can make all of those with just flour and water, but they would taste bland and rather nasty (the tempura and pasta are possible exceptions to this).

In any case we are talking about pancakes and pancakes should have eggs and milk. Fact.

There must be reasonably ok substitutes for both eggs and milk. Just leaving them out sounds miserable. It honestly comes across that you don't actually enjoy food that much.

You can't make all of them with just flour and water though. Soda bread is so named because it contains bicarbonate of soda (and you need the buttermilk or something else that's acidic to make it rise). Some flour (presumably SR) and water will not make a soda bread.

Pizza bread, naan bread, etc are all yeasted. They won't rise without a raising agent and they won't taste the same without yeast.

Sourdough bread can be just flour and water, but it takes a week and some effort to make yourself a sourdough starter. Just mixing up some flour and water won't cut it.

All of the above will benefit enormously from some salt. And things like butter and oil and milk and yoghurt improve them a lot. They affect both texture and flavour, which are equally important. All the nice looking recipes for vegan pancakes on the internet use some kind of non-dairy milk substitute. There's a reason for this.

For those of you who would prefer to avoid wheat try these Buckwheat pancakes they are a surprisingly good substitute.

BreadAndWine - I made my own vegan pancakes tonight inspired by this thread, added a little sugar and mixed in soy yoghurt - no water and used gluten-free flour. They were amazing triple deck with jam soya cream on top.
They took a little longer to cook (than the standard pancakes with egg and milk) but held a good shape, taste and colour.

You're well-named, CalamitouslyWrong!

My students make soda bread - from s/raising flour - in the first session of my Family Learning course - and everyone, kids included, enjoy it.

I make a mean pizza base using s/raising flour - it's different, but, in a hurry, it's a very tasty substitute.

Naan breads - not all are yeasted. A bit of research will tell you that some are made from soda bread.

I made a pie recently using just s/r flour and water for the pastry - it was blooming lovely!

All I ask from you guys is that you experiment a little - you've got nothing to lose but your pre-conceptions.