Does anyone else eat Seattle Dutch Babies?

[midnight armadillo]

I made these this morning, along with buttermilk pancakes, for breakfast for the family this morning.

It's a sort of ovenbaked egg pancake. Recipe:


Seattle Dutch Babies
3 eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup milk
2 Tbs melted butter
1/2 tsp salt

Beat eggs, slowly whisk in other ingredients. Heavily grease two pie plates, divide evenly. Bake at 400 deg for 10 min, 350 deg for 5 min. Serve straight from the oven for good presentation (they puff up huge, then deflate while they cool). Confectioner's sugar, real maple syrup, etc go well with 'em.

If anyone knows why they're called these, I'd be really curious to know!

[grasswire]

1. I never heard them called "Seattle"

We've been eating dutch babies for many years. The only difference in your recipe and mine (Sunset magazine's) is that mine are served with lemon juice and powdered sugar, and that the pie plate (or cast iron skillet) is buttered, not greased.

Good eating!

[Warpy]

2. A variation:

Mix batter, pour into two smoking hot, oiled cast iron frypans, then put into the oven.

Chop apples, cook with butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg on top of the stove.

When the edges are browned and curled up, the pancakes (which is what they are) are done. Take them out, divide the apple filling between them, fold them over, put them on a platter & dust with confectioner's sugar.

It's a great presentation, pretty enough for a dinner party and guests always rave about it. It's lighter than apple pie and easier to make.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

3. I grew up eating those, but with

a grating of nutmeg in the batter & served with lemon juice & powdered sugar. We always called them Swedish pancakes.