Apfelpfannkuchen (German Apple Pancakes)

Title: Apfelpfannkuchen (German Apple Pancakes)
Yield: 6 Servings
Categories: Fruits, Penndutch, Breakfast 

Ingredients: 

      2 lg Cooking apples (Yellow
           -Delicious, or Granny Smith)
    1/4 c  Butter
      1 c  Flour
      1 c  Milk
      1 ts Vanilla extract
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/4 ts Nutmeg, grated
           Confectioners sugar


  Preheat oven to 475.  Peel, core and very thinly slice the apples: you
  should have approximately 1-1/2 cups. Melt 3 T sp. of the butter over
  medium low heat in a small fry pan, and saute 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 T sp. 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 min 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.
  
  Note:  If you do not use apples, add 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter to the hot
  skillet.
  
                                  From  Cooking From Quilt Country Submitted
  By LISE WARING  On TUE, 19 DEC 1995 093841 GMT
  
  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini