Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'll speak up for my home country's vaguely pancake shaped offering, the Welsh cake ( I know, were just naturally gifted at naming things, actual welsh name is teisen radell/)/ Imagine a very thin lightly fruited scone cooked on a round griddle or stone, served hot with plenty of butter and/or jam, sometimes served stacked up with butter in between and cut like a cake. Marc Douglas Sharp wrote: > Right, the thicker ones are drop scones or griddle scones in > Yorkshire English,( or Scotch pancakes or girdle pancakes) - and you > don't have to eat them on a Tuesday :-) > > The griddle or girdle is a thick, round, cast iron plate with a bow > handle that can either be set on a hob or hung over a fire > > Make them with yeast, and they turn into pikelets (West Midlands and > Yorkshire) - often sold ready-made under the name of crumpets. > > In the Potteries area (Staffordshire), they make a pancake from oats - > oatcakes - that are served with almost anything from jam to baked > beans and curry. When I lived in Hanley, and later Longton, in the > early seventies, they were almost as popular as fish and chips, and no > one had ever even heard of Kebabs. > > http://www.staffordshireoatcakes.com/ > > Cheers > Douglas > > On 23.09.2010 11:13, Peter Cheyne wrote: >> Mark, >> >> In English English, we call those thin fried cakes made from batter >> 'pancakes' . You can have fun trying to flip them in one swift flick >> of the wrist. In Japanese English they call the thicker, perhaps >> US, variety 'hot-cakes'. >> >> Maybe these tiny thin pancake lenses should be selling like 'hot cakes'. >> >> All the best, >> >> Peter Cheyne >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information