Pannenkoeken — Dutch Dinner-Plate Pancakes

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 3 eggs
• 2½ cups milk
• ½ tsp salt
• Butter, for the pan
• Toppings, choose your faction: bacon + syrup (sweet-savory classic), apple + cinnamon, cheese, or plain syrup 'stroop'

Method

1. Whisk the flour, eggs, milk, and salt into a thin, pourable batter — thinner than American pancake batter, thicker than crêpe. Rest 10 minutes.
2. Heat a large pan with butter and pour a ladleful, swirling to cover the WHOLE pan — pannenkoeken are plate-sized by law of custom.
3. If doing bacon or apple: lay them in the pan first, pour the batter over, and they cook INTO the pancake — the Dutch integration policy.
4. Cook 2 minutes until golden underneath, flip with courage, 1 minute more.
5. Stack and serve rolled or flat with syrup. In the Netherlands this is also dinner, which is the kind of policy that builds national happiness.