Kaiserschmarrn

Kaiserschmarrn or Kaiserschmarren ( German: [ˈkaɪ̯zɐˌʃmaʁən] ⓘ) ('Emperor's Mess') is a lightly sweetened pancake that takes its name from the Austrian emperor (Kaiser) Franz Joseph I, who was fond of this fluffy shredded pancake. It is served as a dessert or as a light lunch alongside apple sauce and contains raisins or dried cranberries. Kaiserschmarrn is a popular meal or dessert in Austria, Bavaria, and many parts of the former Austro-Hungarian empire, e.g. Hungary, Slovenia, Czech Republic and northern Croatia, which usually use the name as a loan word or translations of it. In Slovenia, it is called cesarski praženec or šmorn. Its Hungarian name is császármorzsa or smarni; its Czech name is (Císařský) trhanec or kajzršmorn. In Slovak it is called Cisársky trhanec. The name Kaiserschmarrn is a compound of the words Kaiser ('emperor') and Schmarren (a scrambled or shredded dish). Schmarren is also a colloquialism used in Austrian and Bavarian to mean 'trifle, mishmash, mess, rubbish, nonsense'. The word Schmarren may be related to scharren ('to scrape') and schmieren ('to smear' [see schmear]).[citation needed]

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