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Pancakes known long before the European society, the Romans actually had known beforehand pancakes. Food in the form of flat bread made from flour, milk, eggs, and seasonings are then burned in a shallow pan. They were called “Alita Dolcia” (meaning: sweet food). Romans usually ate pancakes with honey or fruit syrup. However, on a tour, culinary manuscripts such as “Oxford Companion to Food” written by Alan Davidson, mentions pancakes as confectionery popular in Europe. That is known in this vast land since around the year 1430 in medieval times. If you want to try this pancakes in their origin, get th money from payday loans to go holiday

In mainland Europe, initially known as the pancake over the Eastern European food, like Mardi Gras. Because, they make the tradition of pancakes as a meal in day Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday, the day before Easter fasting.

On development, the pancakes are also adopted in various countries with different names. In Germany, the pancakes are made in a more solid and made from potatoes, called pfannkuchen. In France, there is a thin pancake and Krispy called crepes. There’s also a more expanded galettes and thick like bread. In Ireland there are potato pancakes made of solid, known by the name boxty. In Scotland, pancakes are also known, they called drop scones.

In America, which had a variety of cultural mixing, pancake even been known to native Indian communities since the beginning of the 1607. They used to make a soft dough is formed by hand from corn called nokehick. Then around the year 1740 the Dutch people in America make the cake soba (buckwheat) pancake-like. And British settlers introduced the tradition of eating pancakes on Tuesday before Easter fasting. Next, around the 1870s the term widely known pancakes in America. Not least, outside of Europe such as in India, China, and Indonesia; food similiar to pancakes are also popular. In traditional Indian society a kind of familiar food pancakes called poori. In China there are also pancakes known as bao bing, and in Indonesia itself there is a kind of savory pancake griddle called roll.

Differentc different presentation
Pancake or cake baked on a griddle pan (flat pan) is commonly known in some countries, but different countries, different way of presenting the pancakes. In England, the more liquid pancake batter baked in the pan a little askew. English pancakes are thin like crepes and do not expand, because the only use ordinary wheat flour. Pale in color and have a few spots due to the bubble that appears when baked. British pancakes are made from the main ingredients of milk, eggs and wheat flour is usually served with lemon and sugar syrup spray with flour, or spray of golden syrup (syrup from sugar cane) and butter. It can also be enjoyed with the contents of bacon. French pancakes, both galettes and crepes are thin and crispy more enjoyed by a relatively large field whether salty or sweet. This field can be ice cream, sweet fruits, bacon, until seafood. In the Netherlands, pancakes or panekoeken are eaten with the filling such as apple slices, cheese, bacon, candied ginger, and others. Can also add a thick sugar syrup or known by the name of stroop. One of the menu combines traditional Dutch pancakes with bacon and stroop. American pancakes slightly different from the UK, because using the developer (baking powder) on his pancake batter that is thicker appearance.

Sometimes it also added to taste like sugar, cinnamon, or nutmeg. These pancakes are usually served with maple syrup topping, butter, peanut butter, jelly, fruit jam, or honey. In South America, pancakes served with sugar syrup (cane syrup) and molasses.

On the way visit a coral island off the coast of Normandie in northern France known as Le Mont Saint Michel, you can discover a restaurant that sells pancakes and omelets in the area of the Grand Rue. Pancakes and omelettes are the two types of ‘common’ food that can be found everywhere.

If you are jostling with other visitors to get to the Abbaye du Mont Saint-Michel that is located at the top of the coral island; take some time to enter some souvenir shops or just see a list of restaurant menus displayed on the outside wall. I casually look at the menu of a pancakes and omelettes shop named La Mere Poulard. What is surprising about this shop is the price.

A package of pancakes or omelets that is traditionally made in La Mere Poulard, the most famous restaurant in complex of Le Mont, sold for 25 Euros It seems that it is a symbol of Le Mont as so many food products sold in the area with ‘La Mere Poulard’ on it -ranging from pralines, biscuits, ice cream, a restaurant, store name even inn name. There is a saying that: When in Rome, eat as Romans do, meaning that you should try the local cuisine. You may want to spare 25 Euros for a pancake – a special one, of course.

Surprisingly, despite the exorbitant charge, La Mere Poulard restaurant is always crowded with visitors. In fact, many prospective buyers are willing to stand for long outside the restaurant, Read the rest of this entry »