Apple schmarren

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    1-2

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Tried, Tested and True: Stories and Recipes Celebrating the Traditions of Australian Community Cookbooks

By Liz Harfull

Published 2018

  • About

Thought to originate from Austria, this delicious and extremely easy apple pancake was the recipe for 26 April in the calendar. It is an ideal option for a weekend snack or breakfast with a difference. Used informally in German, the word schmarren means rubbish, or nonsense. It applies to this pancake because, in more traditional plain versions, you push the batter around as it cooks to create a messy or broken pancake, a little like the technique used to scramble eggs. However, in t