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Pancakes for Lunch

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Every time I tell non-German people we don't have pancakes for breakfast, but eat them for lunch instead, I get odd looks. Yes, every once in a while, the "meat-loving Germans" actually like sweet meals for lunch such as Pfannkuchen (pancakes), Milchreis (hot rice pudding, usually eaten with cinnamon and sugar, but other flavors are possible as well) or Grießbrei (similar to "Cream of Wheat").
There are innumerable recipes for German pancakes and I will give you a very easy one, my mom's.
For one pan-sized pancake you need 1 egg, 7 teaspoons of flour and a pinch of baking powder. Mix everything in a bowl, preferably using an egg beater, and then add as much milk as you need for the dough to get a nice consistency. After that, put some oil or margarine in a pan and let it melt a little, but don't let it get too hot, especially if you use oil. The pancake should cook on medium heat and you should flip it over once it's not too runny anymore. Be careful though, because flipping over a pancake that size takes some practice. It's done once it looks like the one in the picture above.
Traditionally it is eaten with sugar on top (at least where I'm from), but you can basically put anything you like on top, be it fruits, Nutella, any kind of marmelade/jam... If you wish to, you can also spice the dough up a little before making the pancake. You can add spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg or even fruits.
I like my German pancakes best with slices of apples inside. In order to make an apple pancake, you prepare the dough as usual, then take a green, sour apple, peel it and cut it into relatively thin pieces. Once you are done, you put the dough in the pan and add the fruits immediately so that they get attached to the dough and won't fall off once you flip the pancake over.
There are some regions in Germany where pancakes are eaten salty, for example with bacon, cheese or fresh herbs which is possible, because the dough is prepared neutral, without using any sugar, but that is another story.

