Pillekauken or linen weaver

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 600 g jacket potatoes, cooked the day before
• Fat, for frying
• 150 g bacon, streaky
• 2 onions, depending on size and taste
• 125 g flour
• 250 ml milk
• 4 eggs
• salt and pepper
• nutmeg
• beetroot

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Total time approx. 15 minutes

Westphalian pancake with potato and bacon strips

Peel the boiled potatoes and cut into thin strips. Cut the bacon into strips. Slice the onions into thin rings. Mix the flour with the milk, let it swell slightly, then stir in the eggs and season the batter with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg. Add about a quarter of the potato/bacon/onion mixture to a pan with hot fat; fry briefly (medium heat). Then pour about a quarter of the pancake batter over it, cover the pan, and let the pancakes set. Then turn over and fry until golden brown. The hot, finished pancake is usually eaten with beetroot or a green salad. However, pear and date cabbage is also delicious with it. As a “Leineweber” (linen weaver), you eat the whole thing if you slice the potatoes instead of strips, but do the same with the rest.