Four Foods on Friday 46

#1. Egg salad or deviled eggs. How do you prepare?

I don't make either. My husband gets sick from eating eggs and I don't like egg salad or deviled eggs. Somehow though, it seems to be a requirement that one or the other be present at every gathering in Kentucky.

#2. French fries. Do you make homemade or frozen?

Again neither. Don't eat them.

#3. Gravy. What do you use - homemade, jar, can or from a package?

I rarely have gravy. I think I have it once a year - at Christmas, and I buy the jar.

#4. Share a recipe for a hot (temperature, not spice) dish.

Anything? Let me think...

How about German Apple Pancake?

I spent my first summer out of school working on a hut in Bavaria. I used to love making German style pancake.

German Apple Pancake

2 large Apples, any cooking variety
1/4 cup Butter
1 cup Flour
1 cup Milk
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1/2 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp Nutmeg,
Icing sugar

Preheat oven to 475. Peel, core and very thinly slice the apples: you should have approximately 1-1/2 cups.
Melt 3 Tbs of the butter over medium low heat in a small fry pan, and sauté the apples until they are just tender. Keep apples warm while preparing the batter.
Place a 9 or 10 inch cast-iron skillet in the oven to heat for at least 5 minutes--the pan has to be very hot for this to work. When it is well heated, add the remaining 2 Tsp of butter to melt and put the skillet back in the oven; the butter should be very hot buy not brown when you add the apples and the batter.
Place the flour, milk, vanilla, salt and nutmeg in a blender and whirl until smooth. Remove the skillet from the oven, quickly arrange the warm apple slices over the melted butter, and pour the batter evenly over all. Bake for 15 min., reduce heat to 375 and bake 10 minutes longer. The pancake will puff and climb up the sides of the pan. Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar, then cut in wedges and serve with maple syrup.