German Buckwheat Pancakes

Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1/4 liter coffee, cold
• 1/8 liter water, room temperature
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 10 slices bacon, thinly sliced
• 250 g buckwheat flour
• oil (for frying)

Recipe

• 1 stir together cold coffee, water, buckwheat flour, salt and eggs.
• 2 let rest one hour.
• 3 in a medium skillet fry two slices of the bacon until crisp, then spoon one large scoop of the dough onto the bacon.
• 4 fry until edges start getting crisp, then flip and fry the other side.
• 5 proceed this way with remaining bacon and dough.
• 6 attention: to get really crisp pancakes, you need quite a lot of oil for frying. using a non stick skillet, you can cut down the fat but won't get very crisp cakes.
• 7 serve hot with applebutter, golden syrup and pumpernickel.