Cooks: I need a little help trying to recreate an old family recipe that's been lost (more inside)

My great-grandmother used to make these things called Eierkuchen… basically, German crepe things. I’ve found lots of recipes for Eierkuchen on the internet, and http://hubpages.com/hub/German_Pancakes__Eierkuchen is the one that looks the most like what I’m used to. So I figure I’ll start there.

The only difference is that when my great-grandmother (and later my great-aunt) made these, she made them with bacon. I asked my dad if he remembered anything, and he said that he knows the bacon was to be cut up into about 1-inch pieces and fried in a heavy skillet and then the bacon was to be dumped into the batter, grease and all, and then fried into the crepes in the same “screaming hot” pan. Those were two things my father was very specific about… the only things he truly remembered: the grease being dumped into the batter, and the “screaming hot” skillet.

I could surely make these with the bacon and the recipe above if it weren’t for the grease being added to the batter. I feel like the grease needs to be countered by more dry ingredients… because I know that these crepes were not the greasy mess they sound like. They simply weren’t. It’s been 20 or so years since I’ve had them, but that much I remember, which is why I was so surprised when my dad said the grease went into the batter. He said that was how they didn’t stick.

I want to try to make them the way I remember them, but I don’t have a lot of time or money to waste on messing them up. I’m REALLY terrible with recipes that involve flour and frying batter… I have no idea why… so if anybody here is a foodie who can think of a way to help me figure this out, I’d be very appreciative :)