My favourite food in the world

A plate of hot pancakes drizzled with Buckwheat Honey might be the most loved food item of the planet
 

Pancakes are ‘flat cakes’, usually thin and round, prepared from a starch batter to which you also add eggs, milk, and butter. They’re fried on both sides in a pan, using oil or butter. The Ancient Greeks made pancakes called tagenias, which translate to “frying pan.” 

Flapjacks have been around for a considerable length of time as a most loved staple in numerous societies' eating regimens. They started more than 30,000 years back during the Stone Age. Analysts have discovered flapjacks in the stomach of Otzi the Iceman, human remains going back 5,300 years. 

In old Greece and Rome, flapjacks were produced using wheat flour, olive oil, nectar, and soured milk. Old Greek artists, Cratinus and Mages expounded on flapjacks in their verse. Shakespeare even notices them in his acclaimed plays. During the English Renaissance hotcakes were enhanced with flavors, rosewater, sherry, and apples. 

The name "hotcake" began during the fifteenth century yet got norm in nineteenth century America. Previously, they were called indian cakes, tool cakes, johnnycakes, venture cakes, buckwheat cakes, buckwheat, frying pan cakes, and hotcakes. Early American hotcakes were made with buckwheat or cornmeal. Thomas Jefferson adored them so much he sent an uncommon formula to his old neighborhood from the White House.

Yup, you heard us—Pancake Day is real! Shrove Tuesday(Fat Tuesday) is the holiday of feasting before Lent. During Lent, people were once not allowed to eat animal products like milk, butter, and eggs. To prevent them from going to waste these ingredients were cooked into tall stacks of pancakes. They were consumed in such large amounts that this day earned the rightful name of Pancake Day.

You may be surprised to find that pancakes exist all over the world and it seems that each culture has its own unique take on them. They are served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner all over the globe. A few examples of this trans-cultural food are: Crepes, potato latkes, Irish boxty, Russian blini, Welsh crampog, Indian poori, Hungarian palacsinta, and Dutch pannenkoeken.