Kaiserschmarrn (Austrian Shredded Pancake)
Kaiserschmarrn, which can be translated as "the emperor’s mess", is a traditional Austrian dish, which is renowned far across the Austrian borders. There are numerous stories about the recipe's origin, most of which center on Emperor Franz Josef I, who was Emperor of Austria from 1848 to 1916. One story says that the dish was first cooked by a farmer’s wife who was visited by the emperor as he was in need of shelter because of bad weather. The farmer’s wife made a common "Holzfällerschmarrn" (a sweet dish made from a dough of flour and fat), which she refined with eggs, milk, and fruits.
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups (500 ml) milk
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 ½ cups (350 grams) flour
- 1 tbsp raisins
- 2 tbsp (30 grams) butter or margarine
- Icing sugar, for dusting
Ingredients for 4 servings (1 kg) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Separate the whites from the yolks.
- 2
Put yolks, milk, sugar and salt in a bowl and whip well.
- 3
Fold in the flour while stirring thoroughly until the mass is pasty.
- 4
Add the raisins to the mixture.
- 5
Whisk the whites until they are stiff and then fold them into the mixture.
- 6
Melt the butter in a frying pan, and add the dough.
Stovetop - 7
Cook until the pancake gets solid at the bottom.
- 8
Divide the mass into quarters with a wooden spoon or spatula and turn them over. After a little while start scrambling the quarters.
- 9
Keep turning the Kaiserschmarrn until it is done.
- 10
Serve with icing sugar on top.
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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