Pancake

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A pancake is a flat, starch-based batter bread that arrives at the table in wildly different forms depending on where you are. North America leans into leavening agents—baking powder lifts them into fluffy, thick rounds—while England keeps theirs thin and unleavened. Cook one on a griddle or frying pan, and you get something that's been feeding humans since prehistoric times, now a breakfast staple that can be topped, filled, or transformed entirely depending on what you're starting with: buttermilk, buckwheat, potato, or nothing but eggs and milk.

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A pancake, also known as a hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack, is a flat type of batter bread like cake, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based batter that may contain eggs, milk, and butter, and then cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan. Archaeological evidence suggests that pancakes were probably eaten in prehistoric societies. The pancake's shape and structure varies worldwide. In England, pancakes are often unleavened and are thin. In Scotland and North America, a leavening agent is used (typically baking powder) creating a thick fluffy pancake. A crêpe is a thin pancake of Breton origin cooked on one or both sides in a special pan or crepe maker to achieve a lacelike network of fine bubbles. A variation originating from southeast Europe is palatschinke, a thin moist pancake fried on both sides and filled with jam, cream cheese, chocolate, or ground walnuts, but many other fillings—sweet or savoury—can also be used. Commercially prepared pancake mixes

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