Oven/German Pancake

Judge me, but we eat this once a week (because we have chickens). This recipe is for two pans--we use a 12" cast-iron skillet and a 9 x 13 stoneware pan. You can half the recipe and just do one of these

a dozen eggs
1t salt
1/2 cup sugar
4 cups milk (preferably warm)
1 Tbs vanilla

Preheat oven to 425° After it's preheated, melt 1/4 c butter (1/2 cube) in each pan in the oven--watch it so it doesn't brown. Blend everything above except flour until smooth, add in flour and blend only until mixed. Open the oven, pour half of the batter into each pan, close oven and cook 15 minutes, lower temp to 350° and cook 13-15 minutes more.

Set table, call family to the table, get powdered sugar ready to sprinkle--THEN Remove from oven, call attention to it's amazing puffiness while you sugar it.

toppings:
powdered sugar
maple syrup
lemon wedges (optional)