Pancakes

[coloradoclyde]

Was it bombed with pancakes?

 

[satx78247]

NOPE. Fish sauce.

yours, satx

 

[tenngun]

But what did they use to "rise" the pancakes in the old days ? I don't expect many frontiersmen men had a tin of baking soda in their possible bag

I seriously doubt frontiersmen ate pancakes - They ate primarily meat and corn when available (leavened items were likely available in towns/cities). Ash cakes/Johnny cakes/Hoe cakes were not uncommon.




Boiled 'puddings in a haste' , dumplings, pot pies and steamed bread, get the bulk of mentions when something specific is said. After baking powder starts showing up post WTBS along with canned milk is when flap jacks become so common in western and camping lore.
Corn wont rise well anyway and seems the most common flour outside of town.

 

[Billnpatti]

It sounds as though our taste in food is quite similar. I, too, like a lot of ethnic foods. I am especially fond of Indian and most Asian foods with the exception of many of the Veitnamese and Japanese foods. Many of their dishes do not have the flavor of other Asian foods. The dishes that I like less are those with seemingly fewer spices. They taste somewhat bland. Not all, mind you, but it has been my experience to find it to be more common in the Vietnamese and Japanese dishes. As you can probably tell, I like the more highly spiced dishes, not necessarily "hot", although I do like those dishes, too, but more highly seasoned.

BTW, I think my absolute favorite Thai restaurant is in Old Toronto, Canada. It is the Royal Thai restaurant. Their Thom Kai Ga is absolutely the most delicious I have ever had. They really do season their foods well but watch out for the ones on the menu that have 4 stars....they are HOT. You eat a plate of that and the next day, you will remember it well and you will not "go quitely into that good night." :haha:

Uh....Oh....Yeah. ff Pancakes. Hmmm :hmm: I don't think I can add anything more about pancakes that hasn't already been said. :idunno:

 

[coloradoclyde]

I don't think I can add anything more about pancakes that hasn't already been said. :idunno:

I can..... Ever heard the expression "Flat as a pancacke"?..... :haha:

Flat as a Pancake? Not Likely

The defining characteristic of the entire vast family of pancakes, however””from crepe to griddlecake, blini, bannock, and beyond””is flatness. “Flat as a pancake,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, has been a catchphrase since at least 1611. Usually it’s applied disparagingly to flat-chested women or to featureless level terrain, such as that of Poland, the glacial plains of Canada, and the state of Kansas.

In 2003, this recurrent comparison led a trio of geographers with senses of humor””after a dullish trip across the American Midwest””to attempt to determine the relative flatnesses of pancakes and Kansas. They constructed a topographic profile of a representative pancake””bought from the local International House of Pancakes””using digital imaging processing and a confocal laser microscope, and a similar profile of Kansas, using data from the United States Geological Survey. The tongue-in-cheek results, published in the Annals of Improbable Research, showed that though pancakes are flat, Kansas is even flatter. Where, mathematically, a value of 1.000 indicates perfect tabletop flatness, Kansas scored a practically horizontal 0.9997. The pancake, in contrast, scored a relatively lumpy 0.957.

In March of this year, Kansan geographers Jerome Dobson and Joshua Campbell””publishing in the wholly reputable Geographical Review ”“ also took on pancakes, pointing out defensively that, while Kansas may be flatter than a pancake, it’s not alone. In fact, there are several states that are even flatter. Their calculations showed that, of the continental states, flattest of the flat is Florida, followed by Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Delaware. (Least pancake-like: Wyoming, West Virginia, New Hampshire, and Vermont.)

As all researchers hasten to point out, though, the pancake comparison simply isn’t fair. Blow a pancake up to the size of””say, Kansas””and you’ll end up with a fried expanse of ferociously rugged terrain, pock-marked with craters and canyons, studded with Everest-sized air bubbles. Compared to a Kansas-sized pancake””well, practically everything is flat.

The 16th-century measure of flatness was “flat as a flounder.”

http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i3/kansas.html

 

[Billnpatti]

And now back to Annals of Improbable Research for an in depth study of flounder VS pancake, a microscopic study using digital imaging processing and a confocal laser microscope to construct a topographic profile to determine which is flatter. :rotf:

 

[satx78247]

When you & your lady come to visit The Alamo City, don't miss THAI CHILI in the Stone Oak area of north Bexar County.

Thai Chili has nothing but chefs from Bangkok "on staff" (Even the bus-boys are Thais.) & their foods are AUTHENTIC, cooked from fresh ingredients and they will fix your order to YOUR taste, from "tourist" to BLAZING HOT. = Their "signature" Tom Khao soup is PERFECTION in a bowl.

just my OPINION, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

When you & your lady come to visit The Alamo City, don't miss THAI CHILI in the Stone Oak area of north Bexar County.

just my OPINION, satx

Do they have pancakes?.....There's no pancake in Tom Khao soup.

 

[satx78247]

NOPE. But the restaurant has THAI-style pancakes on the menu. = :blah:

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

NOPE. But the restaurant has THAI-style pancakes on the menu. = :blah:

yours, satx

Tell me more!

 

[satx78247]

Thai-style pancakes are quite like French crepes, though made with some rice flower, somewhat thicker & served with whipped butter/fruit preserves/marmalade.
(As Siam was a "British Protectorate" for several decades, a LOT of common Thai dishes have some British "influences".)

Note: That "UK-influence" is why the Thais often use a spoon in one hand & a fork in the other, as the common folks copied "the eating technique" of British seamen.

yours, satx

 

[Kansas Jake]

The Thai style pancakes sound good.

Clyde, thanks for the diversion on the flatness of Kansas. The eastern 1/3 of Kansas is actually quite hilly, and many parts of western Kansas appears flat as you drive through on I-70 but is actually more rolling than it appears. Of course there is Mt. Sunflower, the highest point in the state. It is just a gentle rise in the middle of a pasture. :grin:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Thai-style pancakes are quite like French crepes, though made with some rice flower, somewhat thicker & served with whipped butter/fruit preserves/marmalade.
(As Siam was a "British Protectorate" for several decades, a LOT of common Thai dishes have some British "influences".)

Note: That "UK-influence" is why the Thais often use a spoon in one hand & a fork in the other, as the common folks copied "the eating technique" of British seamen.

yours, satx

Don't ignore centuries of French influence.... :haha:

 

[satx78247]

Fwiw, I really don't care much for FROGS & try to avoid thinking about them In the days that my ancestors ruled Calais, "being French" wasn't a synonym for being 2-faced & cowardly.

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

2-faced & cowardly.

yours, satx

:shocked2: ??????????

 

[Black Hand]

And now back to Annals of Improbable Research for an in depth study of flounder VS pancake, a microscopic study using digital imaging processing and a confocal laser microscope to construct a topographic profile to determine which is flatter. :rotf:

My personal favorite was the Journal of Irreproducible Results (http://jir.com/) - they had issues in the Biology reading room at my University....

 

[tenngun]

:rotf: flat as North Dakota just didn't roll off the tounge

 

[Black Hand]

Fwiw, I really don't care much for FROGS & try to avoid thinking about them In the days that my ancestors ruled Calais, "being French" wasn't a synonym for being 2-faced & cowardly.

yours, satx

Were it not for the French, we might still be a British colony....

 

[satx78247]

Pardon me for pointing out that 23SEP1783 was >233 years ago. - A lot of things have changed since then.

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

Didn't the French give us our most enduring symbol of liberty as a gift?