Ahhhhhh, the pancake...the flapjack...the griddlecake. Such exquisiteness comes with so many names and so many styles and flavors and accessories!!! Also, our modern day pancake comes with a pretty lengthy history as well. Can you believe that Stone Age women may have been cooking up some flapjacks on a hot and convenient rock?! What! Scientists have poked around at some 30,000 year-old ancient tools and analyzed a few starch grains and found out that there may have been pancakes. Now they were probably not the fluffy goodness of today drenched in Log Cabin syrup, but were probably something more like the hard, tasteless pirate food called hardtack. They Ancient Greeks were no strangers to the pancake. They were called tagenias and were made from wheat flour, olive oil, honey and curdled milk and sweetened with honey. Breakfast of champions? Elizabethans enjoyed their pancakes on Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday. Things can get a little slim for Christians around Easter so Pancake Day was a good day to eat and enjoy. They made their pancakes with spices, rosewater, sherry and apples. Across the pond in America, our 3rd President, Thomas Jefferson, enjoyed a good pancake or two. Here in the states they were not only known as pancakes, but hoe cakes, johnnycakes and flapjacks. Pancakes have even gotten their own restaurant...The International House of Pancakes!!! Pancakes played their own special part of history. Ready for a stack!!
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