Apple Pancakes

• At the moment there are lots of Bramley apples from the garden.
• I often make pancakes – French style crepes and fill them with cooked apples.
• I also make a slightly thicker type with chopped apples, a recipe from my mum’s sister, sort of apple fritters – racuszki -….. I posted this over 4 years ago.
• I came across this recipe for – placki, which are more like an American pancake.
• I think they would have been made originally with soured milk.
• I have been told you can use kefir instead of yoghurt.
• I weighed out the flour for this recipe but am sure if you make these often you will be able to judge the amount without getting out the scales.

Ingredients

• 2 to 3 cooking apples
• 130g plain flour
• Pinch of salt
• 125ml of yoghurt
• 2 eggs
• Water (up to 60ml)
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• Sunflower oil for frying

Method

• Peel the apples and grate them with a coarse grater.
• Mix in the flour, salt and yoghurt.
• Beat in the eggs.
• Add enough water to make a very thick batter.
• Fry tablespoons on a hot griddle or frying pan – you may need a little sunflower oil.
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• Best eaten hot – but you can keep them in a warm oven if you want to serve them all together.
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• Dust with icing sugar to serve.
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• Also delicious with some hot apple sauce with some ground cinnamon mixed in.

Served on La Prune plates by Jet for Ter Steege of the Netherlands.