On the way home from picking up our Austrian exchange students, Danielle asked a barrage of questions of them, one of which was, "What is your favorite food?" Marcus replied "pizza". Florian though, replied "Kaiserschmarrn", and set us all giggling and asking "what?!"
We later did some research and found that Kaiserschmarrn (or The Emperor's Mishmash) is a kind of scrambled pancake, caramelized and served with plum preserves. Its not very hard to make, and it is always a crowd favorite around here. We change things up a bit for simplicity, so this is an Americanized version.
Ingredients:
1 cup milk
5 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup flour
pinch salt
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup raisins (optional)
jam, jelly or preserves (optional)
Directions:
In a medium mixing bowl, combine milk, eggs, vanilla, and sugar until well-mixed. Blend in flour in small amounts, until it is a smooth batter.
Heat a medium to large skillet to medium heat. Spray skillet with cooking spray. Pour 1/2 cup batter in to skillet and cook 5-6 minutes or until the pancake has set and the bottom is golden brown, usually about 4 or 5 minutes. Turn and cook 3 minutes more, or until this side is also golden brown. Remove to a plate and allow to cool while you cook more pancakes.
As pancakes cool, cut or tear them into bite sized pieces. Drop pieces into a large nonstick pot. When all pancake are cut and torn, stir in raisins, melted butter and powdered sugar. Heat on medium, stirring constantly, until hot and well mixed.
Serve topped with additional powdered sugar, and jam of your choice if desired. This recipe serves about 4.
In case you're wondering, the true Austrian version includes soaking the raisins in rum for half an hour and cooking them in the pancakes. And then it is served with Plum preserves.
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