(Apple Pancakes)

Recipe origin: Germany

Ingredients

• ⅔ cup flour
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 4 eggs, beaten
• ½ cup milk
• 2 large apples, peeled, cored, and cut into thin slices
• 1½ sticks butter (¾ cup)
• 2 Tablespoons sugar
• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
• Confectioners sugar

Procedure

1. Combine the flour with 2 teaspoons sugar and salt and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, beat eggs and milk together.
3. Gradually add flour mixture to the eggs and milk, and beat until smooth.
4. Melt ½ stick (¼ cup) butter in a saucepan.
5. Add apple slices and cook gently until apples are softened.
6. Mix 2 Tablespoons sugar and cinnamon together and stir gently into apples.
7. In a 6-inch frying pan, melt 2 Tablespoons of butter.
8. Pour in batter so that it is about ¼-inch deep.
9. Cook until the bubbles on top of the batter burst and the pancake begins to set.
10. Spoon about ¼ of the apples over the pancake and cover with more batter.
11. Allow it to set, and then gently turn the pancake to brown it on the other side.
12. Repeat to make 3 more pancakes.
13. Dust with confectioners sugar and serve.

Serves 4.