Growing up my husband’s family called these puffed oven pancakes “Germans.” They’re also known as hootenanny. We usually eat them with butter and syrup but yesterday we had apple-raisin sauce minus the raisins. The kids don’t like raisins.
Hootenanny
4 tablespoons butter
6eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
Place butter in a 9×13 cake pan. Place in a 400 degree oven for 3-5 minutes until the butter melts. While the butter is melting beat eggs with a whisk in a large bowl. Add milk and beat well. Add flour and salt. Beat until smooth. Immediately pour egg mixture into the hot cake pan. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes or until puffed and lightly browned. Serve with powdered sugar, syrup, or Apple-Raisin Sauce.
Apple-Raisin Sauce
3 apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
1 1/4 cups apple juice or water
1/2 cup raisins
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
Put all ingredients in a pan, bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 7 minutes or until apples are just tender. Stir together 2 tablespoons cornstarch and 2 tablespoons cold water. Add to the apple mixture. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir for two minutes more. Stir in 2 teaspoons butter. Makes about 3 cups.
It looks delicious! I’ve had it with apple syrup but never with apples – I’m going to try it.
We know them as German Oven Pancakes. I’ve also heard them called Dutch Babies. My baby girl called them Poofy Pancakes! LOL How does one food get so many crazy names?? Oh yeah, ’cause they’re fun! 🙂
We love German pancakes here too. But we haven’t had them with the apple sauce. We aren’t big on raisins here either so I will give it a try minus the raisins as well. YUM!
We call them “monster pancakes” here.
I love that you call them hootenany because that is what I grew up calling them. Paul on the other hand called them Big Pancakes. For father’s day our first year of marriage I got his recipe to make Big Pancakes and then I realized it was just hootenanny. His family all laughs at the name I use.
Oh, that picture made my mouth water. I’m definitely going to have to try that one! thanks.
We love them too! Only we stick to powdered sugar and syrup. Yum!
that looks awesome!!!
Oh my, that looks delicious!! I’ll be right over…….=)
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Jonny made these the other day…they had flour clumps in them;)
This is one of our family’s favorites. It is fantastic with sugared strawberries and cream but my favorite it chokecherry vanilla syrup.
These will be the ruin of my oven light, though, because the kids love to turn the light on to watch them puff up.
that sauce looks divine. i’ve had these before with syrup and i’ll admit i always wondered what the big deal was. but they look mighty fine with the apple-raisinless sauce!
My daughter just made this for us again. We love it!
My family learned about these in England and there it’s called Yorkshire Pudding. And they are usually served savory instead of sweet. It’s most common to serve it with gravy like with roast beef.