German Pancakes with Strawberries

These are delicious! Catherine, Josephine, and I once ate a double batch in one sitting. OK, now I'm embarrased and must add that there were a few of our kids there, too. A normal batch serves 4. Enjoy!

1/4 cup butter
1 1/2 cups milk
3/4 cup flour
1/3 cup sugar
3 eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups fresh strawberries, halved
2 tablespoons sugar
1 (8 oz) carton sour cream
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
Maple syrup

Preheat oven to 400. Put butter in a 9-inch glass pie plate or casserole dish. Place in oven until butter melts and bubbles. While butter is melting put milk, flour, sugar, eggs, and salt into blender. Blend on medium until smooth. Remove pie plate from oven. Adjust heat to 450. Immediately pour mixture into pie plate and return to oven. Bake for 20 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 and bake 8-10 minutes more or until edges are puffed and browned. Remove from oven.

In bowl, sprinkle strawberries with sugar. Spoon into center of hot pancake. Cut hot pancake into wedges. Serve topped with sour cream, brown sugar, and syrup.

**I know the "serve with sour cream" sounds weird, but TRY IT!

Lisa