Ok, so here is the first food related entry that actually includes a recipe. This recipe is from a book we have at home called "Kochen mit Pettersson und Findus" - "cooking with pettersson and findus". It is a wonderful kids' cookbook based on food items in the series of Findus and Pettersson books by Sven Nordqvist. These are really wonderful books with great illustrations. I am not sure whether they are available in english, but they are definitely available in German and I would think Swedish as well since the author is from Sweden. The cookbook is a delight and the recipes are split into the four seasons. The recipe below is for "Pfannkuchentorte" (or pancake torte/cake). If you need a recipe that uses a good number of eggs, then this is a good one! Plus, regardless of what time of year you prepare it, the ingredient list has no real "out of season" items in it.
For the Pancakes:
5 eggs
400 mL milk
3 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
250 g flour
100 mL water
2 Tbsp butter
For the Filling:
200 mL heavy cream (for whipping)
Jam (whatever flavor floats your boat!)
Directions:
(1) mix together the eggs, milk, sugar, salt, and flour. Make sure that you mix until smooth (without any lumps)
(2) let the mixture sit for about 15-20 minutes
(3) put some of the butter in a pan. add a bit more butter between each pancake batch
(4) add enough dough to fill the base of the pan
(5)bake pancakes on both sides until golden.
(6) take out of pan and allow time to cool
(7) whip the heavy cream with a mixer until thick
(8) spread jam over one of the pancakes
(9) stack another pancake on top and spread whipped cream on this one
(10) follow pattern of steps 8 & 9, alternating between jam and whipped cream until last pancake is on the stack
(11) put whipped cream on top of last pancake
(12) garnish with fruit that are in season or a bit of maple syrup or almonds or whatever you please
Enjoy!!
and here is a picture of Pettersson and Findus enjoying their Pfannkuchentorte in the garden:
