the legend goes, some emperor really loved pancakes but his staff would not allow him to eat pancakes, being “common people” food.

so they came up with an idea how to separate the ingredients of pancakes (butter, flour, eggs, sugar) and process them into something entirely different, yet the same. Born was “kaiserschmarren”

its very satisfying and if you can get your fingers on a plate in Austria during ski vacation, make sure you eat it with rum raisins :) My kids don’t like raisins (I wonder if any child does…) so I leave them out.