Saturday, January 11, 2014

Exciting Facts About Pancakes

By Ben Panny


1. The tradition of consuming pancakes on Shrove Tuesday in nearly 1000 years old.

2. On Pancake Day in Newfoundland men and women put items in the pancake batter before it is cooked to foretell the future for family members. If it takes place that boy receives item for a trade, it suggests he will enter the trade but if a girls receives item from a trade, it signifies she will marry a person from trade.

3. Maple syrup that is normally employed as a topping, was initially a sweet drink which was found by the Algonquin Indians. To make this drink, sap was collected from Canadian sugar maple trees and next it was boiled.

4. The initial ready-mix food which was sold commercially was Aunt Jemima pancake flour. It was invented in 1889 in St. Joseph, Missouri. It wasn't pretty well-liked at the beginning.

5. It is typical in France to touch the handle of the frying pan and to make a wish while the pancake is turned, holding a coin in one hand.

6. Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday is known as "Carnivale' in Italy (from the Latin for 'goodbye to the flesh') Fasnacht' in Germany (night of the fast) and 'Mardi Gras' (actually 'Fat Tuesday') is celebrated in locations as diverse as Brazil, New Orleans, and Australia. In Iceland the day is known as 'Sprengidagur' (bursting day) and is recognized for the tradition of eating salt, meat and peas. In Greece it's referred to as 'Apocreas', which suggests 'from the meat', as it's common for Greeks not to eat meat in the course of Lent.

7. The initial recorded pancake day was in Olney, Buchinghamshire in 1445 year.

8. The longest race in the quickest time was held in Melbourne in Australia. Man called Jan Stickland covered incredible 345 meters in 59.5 seconds. It was in 1985 year.

9. The biggest number of pancakes tossed in the shortest amount of time in the UK is 349 tosses in 2 minutes. (Dean Gould at Felixstowe, Suffolk, 14 January 1995).

10. World's largest pancake was cooked in Rochdale (Greater Manchester) in 1994, which was 15 metres in diameter, weighted 3 tonnes and had an estimated two million calories.

11. Word 'shrove' comes from the archaic English verb 'to shrive' which signifies to absolve people from their sins. In the Middle Ages it was pretty prevalent for priests to hear people's confessions to prepare them for Lent.

12. In the US, Pancake Day is frequently known as Mardi Gras. In French 'Mardi Gras' means Fat Tuesday.

13. Celebrity chef Aldo Zilli in 2005 year set the world record for the highest pancake toss at 329cm.

14. Russian blins are ordinarily prepared with buckwheat and they are thin, crispy pancakes served with caviar and sour cream or folded and filled with jam and cream cheese.

15. One pancake fan ran a marathon while continually tossing a pancake for 3 hours, two minutes and twenty seven seconds.

16. In 1986 was hold an occasion known as World's Largest Pancake Breakfast. It was revived for the 350th anniversary of Massachusetts. This breakfast has been held every year since then and hundreds of volunteers aid during this occasion. An astounding quantity of 71,233 serving of pancakes had been served to more than 40 thousand men and women in 1999.




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