Shakespeare & Winter Pancakes

       Varieties of pancakes are probably the earliest and most widespread types of cereal food eaten in prehistoric societies. Usually pancakes are made of flour, milk and eggs with added salt and sugar. 

       There is an evidence that the Middle English word Pancake appears in an English culinary manuscript from 1430. However there are other words for this kind of cereal dish.

       The Oxford English Dictionary records the word flapjack as being used as early as the beginning of the 17th century, referring to a flat tart or pan-cake. Shakespeare refers to pancakes in All's Well That Ends Well, and to flap-jacks in Pericles, Prince of Tyre: 

                                                      

                                                        

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 "Come, thou shant go home, and we'll have flesh for  holidays, fish  for fasting-days, and  moreo'er puddings  and  flap-jacks, and  thou shalt be welcome."

  

     Act II Scene I