The word "pancake" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever referring to the type of food. For example: "My favorite breakfast is a stack of fluffy pancakes with a pat of butter and a drizzle of maple syrup."
Put in the hot oven for about 20 minutes before dropping the temperature down to 140C/275F/gas mark 1 for another hour or until the meat falls away from the bone of the duck leg. 4 While the duck is cooking, start to make the pancake dough.
My friend Ed and I used to argue for hours about the correct order of construction: sauce, duck, spring onions and cucumber (him); or duck, spring onions and cucumber, sauce (me, clearly right as you don't want the sauce soaking into the pancake).
Any Nutella (still the definitive pancake filling) or salted caramel sauces need to be warm, almost liquid, as does the butter.
This may shock you (after all, as Hugh FW has observed, the pancake is essentially the forefather of the Yorkshire pudding), but it is not really a savoury item.
Consequently, while we all think we know what fantastic pancakes are, in reality the pancake remains enigmatic.
Beautifully landscaped and designed by the team responsible for at least one Giorgio Armani villa in Italy, the Carib-Italian fusion food is excellent if also priced for the Armani wallet - £15 for a bowl of (delicious) pasta and a tenner for a coffee and pancake breakfast.
Ideally, aim for a pancake the size of a dinner plate with, at its centre, the thickness of a Compeed bunion plaster.
Why does Elizabeth's pancake-face still haunt us, her aged body the focus of our horror?
That awe-inspiring/terrifying 360-degree landscape shot of pancake-flat outback in Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright (1971) appeared to sum up the nation's contribution to world cinema.
So why does Elizabeth's pancake-face still haunt us, her aged body the focus of our horror?
To Danes from Copenhagen, with its pancake-flat surroundings, the Baltic island's rolling hills and steep cliffs made a welcome change, while its location – 20 miles from Sweden and closer to Poland than to the Danish capital – made it feel like an exotic destination.
