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Kids' Lunch, Breakfast Edition: The Dutch Baby
by George Weld
• July 17, 2015
• 18 Comments
Today, we take a break from Kids' Lunch to bring you Kids' Breakfast.
Today, George Weld—chef-owner of Egg and author of Breakfast: Recipes to Wake Up For—makes a breakfast that's more delicious than cereal, but just as fast.
A house full of sweetly sleeping children is a blessed thing, but there’s a lot on the line once those kids start staggering out of bed, bleary-eyed from a night of whispers and giggles and keeping each other awake. On those sleepover mornings, things can go south in a hurry—the fate of the day rests on breakfast.
When I want a guaranteed success without a lot of trouble—and when trying to coordinate pancakes coming off the griddle feels like too much to handle—I default to a Dutch baby (I use the recipe from The Joy of Cooking). It needs just six ingredients that you almost surely already have in your pantry: flour, butter, milk, eggs, salt, and sugar. It’s about as complicated to make as a bowl of cereal, but it’s a lot more delicious and wholesome. And it’s dramatic: When it comes out of the oven billowed and sizzling, it almost always gets an excited squeal from the kids in my house.
You get about 20 minutes of downtime between putting it in the oven and serving it up, which gives you plenty of time to clean up, set the table, and cook some sausage or cut up some fruit to go with it. By the time the kids sit down to eat, you’re done.
What do you make your kids for special breakfasts? Share with us in the comments below!
Photos by George weld
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Thanks sarah - I also made the two below and they were pretty amazing.
Sarah is Food52's senior staff writer & stylist.
So glad to hear it!
Sarah is Food52's senior staff writer & stylist.
For all who are wondering about a recipe, the recipe George uses comes from The Joy of Cooking, and you can find that recipe here: http://www.tastebook.com.... You can also find several recipes on Food52—there are two listed right below the article.
RECIPE?
no recipe no comment....shame on you bye bye
WHERE THE HELL IS THE RECIPE?
One of my favorite breakfasts, and the reason I own two Pyrex pie plates. There are good, basic recipes for this all over the place. It's easy enough that you'll have it memorized after a couple times. I swap out the white flour for whole wheat pastry flour from our CSA (equal amounts). As the article says, having 20 minutes while it's in the oven is just enough time to pull the rest of the meal together.
#Fail. You can't post an article without the recipe. Frustrating.
where is the recipe?
http://www.food.com/recipe...
http://www.food.com/recipe...
no recipe.
Recipe?
There are two recipes in the "Oh baby, baby" section right below the article. One is NYT David Eyre's, the other says "Eat this Dutch Baby..."
So yeah...where's the recipe?
Where's the link to the recipe?
So, where's the recipe?
Dutch babies are our go to weekend treat, partially due to my tempestuous relationship with pancakes (Why is the temperature so hard to get right?! Why do I have to stand there so long?!). I love that I can stumble out of bed, throw all of the ingredients in a blender for 30 seconds, turn on the oven to preheat, and then GO BACK TO BED for a little bit longer. Get up, put it in the oven, make coffee: heaven.
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