A pancake mix from Maison Zoe Ford, the Montreal baking house, that makes pancakes tasting like a cinnamon doughnut: crisp at the edge, soft in the middle.

The mix does the hard part; you add the wet. What comes off the griddle is the Sunday pancake most boxed mixes only promise, with a real cinnamon-sugar edge.

You make them on the slow weekend morning, the sleepover breakfast, the brunch you host in pajamas.

A host gift for the friend with the new house and the good griddle. The pantry treat for the person who cooks. The small thing tucked into a bigger basket.

Pancake baking mix. Made in Montreal by Maison Zoe Ford.