DANISH PANCAKE BALLS

Contributed by Inge Miller, Embla Lodge #2, Tacoma, WA and found in Nordic Cookbook, pg. 212

  • 1 pound flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. sugar
  • 4 cups buttermilk*
  • 4 eggs
  • Crisco for frying**
  • powdered sugar
  • jam
Aebesliver

Yummy Æbleskivers!

Yields: 1 batch – serves 4-6

  1. In bowl mix flour and baking soda, salt and 1 tsp. sugar.
  2. In a large separate bowl, mix buttermilk and eggs.
  3. Add dry ingredients to liquid ingredients slowly, stirring until smooth batter.
  4. Prepare Æbelskiver pan by melting good dab of Crisco in each hole of the pan when pan is hot.
  5. Fill holes only 3/4 full with dough and turn Æbelskiver with a knitting needle or ice pick [or wooden skewer].
  6. Cook until they are slightly brown, then turn several times so they are nice and round (low heat), about 7 minutes.
  7. Serve with powdered sugar and jam.
  1. An Æbleskiver pan is available at many of the Scandinavian shops, William Sonoma's and other cookware places online (see links at left for a few choices). Oil can be heated either in deep pan or in special deep fryer machine.
  2. William Sonoma's website had a U-Tube demo on how to make the Æbelskiver filled with jam and this is great place to look. Click here to get to their page and then click on arrow on video.
  3. Æbleskiver are Danish (the word actually means apple slices and they sometimes are filled with apple chunks), but they are also known in Norway( although in a smaller version) as poffertjes (puff balls).
  4. *You can purchase dried buttermilk mix which works as well as real buttermilk.
  5. **Butter can be used instead of Crisco with equal luck.