poffertjen.

1804 Mrs. Hudson & Mrs. Donat New Pract. Cookery cxxxi. 74 To make Dutch Pufferties. Take a pint of cream and six eggs... Put them into custard cups, sift a little fine sugar over the tops, and send them to the oven to bake.

1842 J. Smith Suppl. to Catal. Raisonné Wks. Dutch, Flemish & French Painters 483 A woman cooking poffertjes (or cakes), and four others partaking of the hilarity of the occasion.

1872 Cape Monthly Mag. 5 230 Shall we take offence if an English host..set before our craving appetite..the dainty though untranslatable pumpkin ‘poffartjes’?

1890 Cent. Mag. Nov. 49 The kitchen walls were covered with..waffle-irons, poffertje pans.

1891 H. J. Duckitt Hilda's ‘Where is It?’ 196 ‘Poffertjes’ is an old Dutch Pudding Recipe worth preserving.

1905 Speaker 11 Mar. 563/1 Poffertjes..are little round pancaky blobs, twisted and covered with butter and sugar.

1942 H. W. Van Loon Van Loon's Lives 850 There is no use trying to describe them to outsiders, for poffertjes are the one dish that waxes only in the Low Countries. They are a cross between a very small kind of pancake and a fritter and are the main delicacy of..village fairs.

1955 J. Hendrie Ouma's Cookery Bk 133 Poffertjies..Drop by spoonfuls into a pot of deep, hot fat. Cook until brown and puffed up.

1977 Fair Lady (S. Afr.) 8 June Suppl. 6 Golden Poffertjies... Take teaspoonfuls of the mixture..cooking a few at a time until golden brown.

1989 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 28 May 61/8 At Cafe The Hague at the Myer Centre, the lip-smackers are aglow with poffertjes... You can face out on these babies for less than $5.

2003 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 6 July l11 This traditional Dutch pancake place serves the beloved poffertjes, or mini-pancakes.