[...] > Depending on who "you lot" really ARE, in the U.S. we > frequently call them flap-jacks, which is slang... No idea > where THAT came from, either, but Google says that name > started about 1600! >
In the UK flapjacks are a different thing from pancakes. Pancakes are normally made from a think liquid of milk, eggs and flour then fried in butter. In other words, they are what the French call crepes. Flapjacks are made from rolled oats, honey and butter, mixed into a tin to a depth of about one inch and cooked in the oven. There are also numerous pan-type things made from different variations of similar ingredients, such as oatcakes, popular in Derbyshire - oats, flour, milk, salt, sugar. Mix, fry in animal fat. > Think that's a while ago? Pancake, the original word for them > started in the 1400's, according to the Wikipedia Dictionary! > All that type of food has a very ancient history and is spread around the world. You can see people everywhere mixing their staple with liquid, and frying it one way or another. <http://www.web-options.com/Pick2008/content/_9299359_large.html> > I grew up just south of Lake Erie in Ohio, and there was a > variation called "jonnycake" which was a corn meal based > pancake, cooked the same way. > Just south of my tiny hometown, we even had an East-West side > of the hills (aka 'mountains") road called Jonnycake Ridge Route! :-D > Johnny Cakes are also well known in the Caribbean, and from there they have journeyed to the UK. On a bus ride in Ethiopia once I sat next to a Rastafarian who was making the journey to Jamaica - a part of Ethiopia that Haile Selassie (Ras Tafari) gave to the Rastas. When the bus stopped in Nazret (Nazareth!) for a break we bought some dumplings which a local woman was frying at the roadside - according to the rasta they were exactly the same as johnny cakes. He said they were called johnny cakes because you took them with you on a journey (> 'johnny'). > Ain't history fun? > It's everywhere! > keith whaley > (Owns a number of older Pentax 35mm cameras, to keep this > post on topic! :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
