pfannkuchen
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A light, fluffy German pancake often served with sugar and jam
- noun
- /ˈpfɑːnˌkuːkən/
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pfannkuchen
- Every Sunday, my grandmother makes pfannkuchen for breakfast, and we love to add fruit sauce on top.
Examples
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I enjoyed a delicious pfannkuchen sprinkled with sugar and served with raspberry jam.
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When I was a child, we used to say, "Pfannkuchen sind Liebchen!"
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The churros tasted like a pfannkuchen he once had when he and his wife stopped at the Pennsylvania Dutch Festival in Kutztown.
Fiction book (1993) -
At the festival, they served warm pfannkuchen topped with whipped cream and fresh strawberries.
Synonyms
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A thick, puffy pancake baked in the oven and often served with lemon, sugar, or fruit
is the same mild sweet dish made with eggs and lemon without noting oven
How Puffy
Surface Forms
pfannkuchen singular
pfannkuchen plural
Etymology
The word pfannkuchen comes from two German words, Pfanne 'pan' and Kuchen 'cake'. So it is a 'pan cake', like the English pancake, which explains why pfannkuchen is a cake cooked in a pan and often served with sugar or jam.