Pancakes, please. Don't forget the German.
Jun. 6th, 2009 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crazychicknladyI made German Pancakes for dinner tonight. Well, it's what my Mom always called German Pancakes when I was a kid (and still does when making them for the Grandkids).
The basic recipe is:
1 egg
1 heaping spoon full of all purpose flour (serving spoon sized).
enough milk to get it the right consistency.
Start with egg and milk, whisk together, then whisk in flour.
Butter to cook it in.
Cook one at a time in frying pan over medium heat.
This makes two or three pancakes depending on how big you make them. Lately I've been making them smaller and thinner so they are more like crepes.
Sorry, I can't be more specific than that. It is very much a mix stuff till it looks right kind of recipe.
Lately I have been mixing up double batches and making four or five pancakes (one at a time in a medium sized frying pan). Then mixing more as needed (usually I go through at least 8 eggs before I'm done).
S and I like them plain; H, C and Daddy like jelly on them. Sometimes C eats them plain, so the first one I gave him tonight was plain. He opened it up halfway through and told me it wasn't a German pancake because it was plain. I added jelly and took care of his problem.
Later he asked me to make more pancakes, and this time I should make sure to not forget the German (he meant the jelly, of course; apparently to my three year old what makes a German pancake not just a pancake is the jelly.)
For those parents with young children out there, remember: just because you think your child understands the world the way you understand the world, it ain't always so.
The basic recipe is:
1 egg
1 heaping spoon full of all purpose flour (serving spoon sized).
enough milk to get it the right consistency.
Start with egg and milk, whisk together, then whisk in flour.
Butter to cook it in.
Cook one at a time in frying pan over medium heat.
This makes two or three pancakes depending on how big you make them. Lately I've been making them smaller and thinner so they are more like crepes.
Sorry, I can't be more specific than that. It is very much a mix stuff till it looks right kind of recipe.
Lately I have been mixing up double batches and making four or five pancakes (one at a time in a medium sized frying pan). Then mixing more as needed (usually I go through at least 8 eggs before I'm done).
S and I like them plain; H, C and Daddy like jelly on them. Sometimes C eats them plain, so the first one I gave him tonight was plain. He opened it up halfway through and told me it wasn't a German pancake because it was plain. I added jelly and took care of his problem.
Later he asked me to make more pancakes, and this time I should make sure to not forget the German (he meant the jelly, of course; apparently to my three year old what makes a German pancake not just a pancake is the jelly.)
For those parents with young children out there, remember: just because you think your child understands the world the way you understand the world, it ain't always so.
