Valerie's baked apple pancake

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 Eggs
¾ cup Milk
¾ cup All-purpose flour
½ teaspoon Salt
1½ tablespoon Butter (If you're concerned about fat; then you may use a bit less butter, especially if you have a non-stick pan. Try 1 T. butter...)
½ cup Sliced Granny Smith apples
½ teaspoon Good quality cinnamon
½ teaspoon Nutmeg
More cinnamon
Brown sugar; (I never measured this.. I'd say about 1/3 cup? 1/2 cup? \"To taste\" would work. ;-) )

Directions

Ok, here is the Apple Pancake recipe that I've come up with, borrowing from various other recipes. It is very similar to The Original Pancake House Apple Pancake. I grew up in Portland Oregon, where the first OPH started, and when I moved away, I missed having this pancake so much I was determined to recreate it! :-)

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Beat together eggs, milk, flour, salt, ½ tsp. nutmeg and ½ tsp. cinnamon until smooth. Add apples to batter. Melt butter in 10-inch cast iron skillet (if you don't have cast iron, use what you have, but heavier works better). When very hot, pour in batter. Remove from heat and *quickly* sprinkle a handful of brown sugar over the top, to taste. I like to make sure every spot gets some sugar. Then sprinkle some more cinnamon over the top and put in teh oven. After 15 minutes, lower heat to 350 degrees and bake for 10 more minutes.

ALTERNATE METHOD: Use the full 1½ T. of butter, and before you pour the batter in the pan, sprinkle the handful (I have small hands, so I use a couple handfuls... if you like it less sweet, use less) of brown sugar over the bottom of the pan, with a sprinkle of cinnamon, then *gently* pour the batter in and cook as above. Keep an eye on it to make sure you don't burn it (both methods).

Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 426 by "Valerie Whittle" <catspaw@...> on Dec 30, 1997

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