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paysbas t1_ixuchml wrote

Looks delicious, but -being Dutch- I have to say this looks nothing like a Dutch pancake…

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Pademelon1 t1_ixud1ty wrote

They're an American thing, and their proper name is a 'Dutch Baby'

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TotallyInOverMyHead t1_ixuk95t wrote

>A Dutch baby pancake, sometimes called a German pancake

I'm objecting on so many levels right now. Cultural Misappropriation being one of them !

This is the only acceptable form of a GERMAN PANCAKE

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g1ngertim t1_ixw99ti wrote

Iirc, it's a Pennsylvania Dutch thing. The Pennsylvania Dutch of course not being Dutch, but rather Deutsch, but also so far removed from the culture of Deutschland as to be entirely distinct.

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jllclaire t1_ixya9yc wrote

Pennsylvania Dutch = Amish, FYI

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g1ngertim t1_ixyejlk wrote

The Amish are Pennsylvania Dutch, but there are others.

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golem501 t1_ixv2f4w wrote

Wait... that looks more like that Austrian thing... Kaiserschmarrn.

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hellodon t1_ixwprwv wrote

There are only 2 things I can’t stand in this world….

Pancakes that are intolerable of other Pancake’s cultures….and The Dutch Pancake.

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jemand84 t1_ixwdhrq wrote

German here and have never seen a pancake like that before.

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abishop711 t1_ixws877 wrote

That’s because they were invented by german immigrants to the US. They’re not actually from Germany either.

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jemand84 t1_ixx3xjx wrote

Aaah, got it. Looks good though. Guess I look up a recipe and see what differs from the pancakes I am used to.

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overdrive148 t1_ixx81l9 wrote

I'm going to need a recipe!

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TotallyInOverMyHead t1_ixxa9cj wrote

For which regions kind ?

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overdrive148 t1_ixxjf68 wrote

Kaiserschmarrn - I made a regular dutch baby this morning!

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TotallyInOverMyHead t1_ixylewu wrote

you'll need:

  • 4 Eggs
  • 125 grams of Flour
  • 125 ml of milk
  • a pinch of salt
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder (3 gramms)
  • 40 gramms of sugar
  • 80 gramms of raisins
  • 4 Spoons of butter (40 gramms)
  • 1 Spoon of powderd sugar (4 gramms)

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Steps:

  1. devide eggs by color; make dough out of egg-yellows, flour, salt, baking pwder and sugar. Dough should be smooth, let sit for 10 minutes.
  2. beat the eggwhites until you get stable beaten egg whites (Ei-Schnee / egg snow). carefully fold the beaten egg whites into the dough. Add raisins.
  3. heat pan to medium heat. Add 2 spoons of Butter ( 20 Gramms), add dough (all of it), fry until crunchy on the underside, then flip pancake and add the remaining butter, fry until gold-browns.
  4. add pancake to a plate, use forks to rip into pieces. add the powdered sugar, then serve.
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Xerozvz t1_ixy04pv wrote

I just learned what I grew up knowing as German pancakes is actually is a traditional food in Kedah, Malaysia,thanks to your post. My mom grew up getting served it by her mom who called it German pancakes(she is from Germany which makes this more confusing) so now I'm wondering who and how one of my ancient relatives learned to make Pek Nga

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bhbull t1_ixutha4 wrote

And Dutch babies are delicious, Canadian tradition at least in my household… lemon, maple syrup…

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bakedclark t1_ixv0kg1 wrote

Well, I will refer to them as "hootenannies" from here on.

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shirttailsup t1_ixud5v0 wrote

That’s because they were actually created in Seattle, and Dutch in the name comes from the creator’s daughter not being able to pronounce Deutsch correctly. They’re pretty awesome though! You can find a lot of good recipes by looking up Dutch Baby Pancake.

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That-Try3995 OP t1_ixueh1z wrote

I knew that via Google but the menu said that it's a Dutch pancake or Dutch baby (or at least that's what they call this dish) so I just went with it! No disrespect to the Dutch culture!

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golem501 t1_ixv2mtc wrote

Americans seem to call a lot of things Dutch that are not recognized by Dutch. Same for Dutch apple pie I saw here. What's next?

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seblasto t1_ixvbuvu wrote

Most of that stems with a derivation of 'Deutch' and 'Deitsch' when german immigrants who settled in pennsylvania, they became known as "pennsylvania dutch": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch

It was more of a simplification due to dialect that became a regional colloquialism.

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paysbas t1_ixuiy2q wrote

No offense taken! I love Dutch pancakes but I think this is probably even tastier 🤤

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kytheon t1_ixugphj wrote

Dutch too and I’ve never seen anything like this

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ericvr t1_ixukvb9 wrote

Exactly, looks nothing like a Dutch pancake… still looks delicious though

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JackDotCom t1_ixx1uxh wrote

My family makes a “Dutch Puff”. Turns out it was Deutsch all along. We only just recently found out my grandmother’s embarrassment for her German ancestry when we started seeing it in our genetic tests. She admitted we were German and not Dutch before she died. For all you “Dutch Babies” out there, those are German too.

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