The Wonderful History of Pancakes
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- These pancakes from 1658 England are the perfect midpoint in the evolution of my favorite breakfast foods. From their ancient past to their place on modern breakfast tables the world over, pancakes have always been beloved.
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DISH NAME
ORIGINAL 1658 RECIPE (From The Compleat Cook)
To make fine Pan-cakes fried without Butter or Lard
Take a pint of Cream, and six new laid Egs, beat them very well together, put in a quarter of a pound of Sugar, and one nutmeg or a little beaten Mace (which you please) and so much flower as will thicken almost as much as ordinarily Pan-cake batter; your Pan must be heated reasonably hot & wiped with a clean Cloth, this done put in your Batter as thick or thin as you please.
MODERN RECIPE (Makes 12 medium pancakes)
INGREDIENTS
- 1 Pint (475ml) Cream
- 6 Eggs
- 1/2 Cup (113g) Brown Sugar (white sugar can be substituted)
- 1 Whole Nutmeg OR 2 tsp ground nutmeg OR 1 tsp ground mace
- 2 Cups (240g) Flour
METHOD
1. Mix the cream and eggs in a large bowl and whisk together until smooth and frothy.
2. Add the sugar and spice (nutmeg or mace) and whisk in.
3. Add the flour and gently mix in until there are no clumps remaining. Be careful not to over mix the flour into the batter.
4. Cover the batter and allow batter to rest for 30 minutes.
5. Heat a griddle or pan over medium high heat until very hot. Then lightly grease with butter.
6. Ladle batter onto the griddle and allow to cook undisturbed until the top loses its shine and any bubbles have popped. Then flip the pancake over and cook for another 1-2 minutes before removing from the heat. Repeat until the batter has all been used.
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#tastinghistory #pancakes
With so many types of pancakes in the world, what's everyone favorite kind?
Personally, I've been really loving crepes.
One with a whole lot of whipped cream and maple syrup
@@jamesr5574 me too!!
Just plain buttermilk with syrup and whip cream. 🥞
I love sourdough pancakes, with honey butter. I make them with cardamom and a little cinnamon.
Every time you put a whole nutmeg in a recipe, Jon Townsend grows stronger...
I was looking for this reference!
Me too
Christina T. I knew someone would post somthing about Jon in there!
LOL! Accurate statement.
YES!!!!
Me, externally: *nods head sagely* ah yes I see the historical context for this
Me, internally: nice man eat food make brain happy
Both reactions are appropriate
Nice man good hair speak good.
@Batman The Dark Knight don't be inappropriate, you wouldn't say that to someone on the street under normal circumstances.
I mean, that's basically this channel for everyone in a nutshell
🤣🤣🤣
Anyone else binge-watching all of Max's videos just because? I love this channel! Can't get enough, so I watch them over and over!
Huzzah, thank you!
Been over a year, still doing it :)
I have the Binge Every Episode playlist on as I work!
I'm watching a marathon on Thanksgiving while I'm cooking myself lol. I love this channel too! There's a reddit page dedicated to this channel as well.
Me. Again. Today. Because I'm a history nut with no life. Channels like this is my idea of fun.
Decades ago when I was a teacher, I had an Ethiopian student whose mom made the most delicious injera. He’d bring me some that she cooked for me after she found out I liked it. And growing up in Ohio, our elementary school had a pancake breakfast to go with the maple syrup we made ourselves from tapping the maple trees on the school grounds. Many good pancake memories ❤
Today on “Handsome man cooks old food”: a trap is laid for Townsends by using an entire nutmeg.
Townsend's is Elmer Fudd, and Max is Bugs Bunny in Viking drag.
Literally all of us were thinking this.
I would nerd out of they collaborated though...
@@nannetteralphs9042 They did a livestream together
😂😂😂
"No butter, no lard"
"Well it does have 6 eggs and quite a bit of sugar"
Recipe: 𝟭 𝗣𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺
🤣 glad I'm not the only one to notice this! Max should have thought about how butter is made
Was thinking that too. A pint of heavy cream is about one stick of butter's worth of fat.
I wondered about that
No butter, no lard? Is that how Bob Marley makes his pancakes?
and then he butters his pan before frying. As Julia Child said, "You can never have too much butter."
Every other cooking channel on youtube:
''We only talk about the food not about its history''
This channel:
''Ötzi ate pancake before he was murderd!''
This channel is awesome hope there is still more to come :D
Me reading your comment before reaching that part of the vid: ah this guy is joking
me after: wait... what
The funny thing is that historians seem to disagree whether it was a pancake or a primitive pizza which was the information I got every time when learning about ötzi. I guess there there wasnt that much of a difference back then
@@schwachmatjauch3282 Makes sense, a pizza is basically a savory cake baked in a pan.
And pancakes don't have to be sweet either, my father often makes some that get cut into strings and put into soup.
@@Franky_Sthein Frittatensuppe.
The name refers to the Italian Frittata, while it's actually a non-sweet Palatschinke (Austrian German) similar to the Hungarian Palacsinta.
Whose ancient origin was the Placenta (Greek and Latin for cake - pan cake).
@@Franky_Sthein Crepes are often eaten salty too, say cheese and ham wrapped inside maybe some herbs or chicken too, or tomato, cheese, ham, kinda pizza like.
My Dad was a pancake master. For years he'd make pancakes for all of us every Saturday morning, and sometimes other times in the week. He loved to experiment with food and drinks anyway, you never quite knew what you were going to get when he was in that mood.
I can remember only twice in all those years that things didn't work out.
I'm craving some of his banana pancakes now. Miss you and love you, Dad. ❤️❤️
Banana 🍌 pancakes 🥞 sound delicious 😋
"fairly thicc pancake" is my street name
🤣
Great comment. I loved you in Guardians of the Galaxy ;)
Very perfect heard it as I read this... Just the best
And "pancake butt" in prison
It's just hitting me that that's an oxymoron
Vogue: "Pancakes are frankly difficult and not worth eating at all--"
Me: "SACRILEGE, BURN THE WITCH."
1939 Vogue: witch editor that disses pancakes...
modern day Vogue: Anna Wintour
where is the Spanish Inquisition when you need them?
#VOGUEISCANCELLED
Sounds like a Heresy to me. I made pancakes with great frequency back in grade school. Sure it was from a mix, but using a mix honestly isn't too dissimilar from pre-making a bunch of dry mix yourself and mixing in the wet stuff later when you actually want to cook some pancakes.
Double-acting baking powder was invented 70 years before that was written so I have no idea what they could be complaining about
If they think making a pancake is difficult, they can't be trusted to even butter a damn piece of bread. Seriously, nothing that actually requires the application of heat in the kitchen could be more easier than a pancake.
"Who would want less pancakes? I... does not compute."
Truly you are a champion of us all.
pssst...it's "fewer"
@@jonijoni1145 thanks Ser Davos
Max….you’re so cute! 😂❤️
It's absolutely amazing how much effort you put into pronouncing foreign words correctly. I'm a native Hungarian (and a bit of a polyglot) and literally never heard a native English speaker pronounce such a clean Ö, or say any Hungarian word with A well enough that I could recognize the word just by listening without watching the accompanying video.
Thank you : )
I noticed that also. I
appreciate you going above and beyond!
i noticed this too and im american and only speak english. i was impressed because i could tell he was actually putting that effort in.
I like how when he says someone's name, he actually puts in the effort to learn how to pronounce it, and the same goes with titles of foods, ancient places, countries, etc. I know it's small, but I appreciate it.
and yet, that's definitely not how to pronounce okonomiyaki.
@@wander.1ost Yeah, but they did say "effort". You don't have to always get it right, as long as you try. 🙂
@@wander.1ost I didn't mean that he pronounces everything perfectly, I just appreciate that he puts in the effort to try to learn to pronounce certain words, even if his pronunciation isn't amazing.
Most youtubers dont even try with names they just decide "i csnt say this" instead of even giving it a go
@GREATGODSOM I realize that, I'm just saying that I appreciate that he TRIES to pronounce things, even if his pronunciation isn't always correct.
fun fact: Otzi's body is the oldest known human to have tattoos on his body.
The designs vary from abstract forms to deers.
His corpse was in such a great condition due to the climate it was preserved in, that tattoo historians were able to reproduce the designs and I've known people who got them.
Now that sounds like a fun tattoo idea
I have two deer tattoos copied from those found on two mummified bodies from the Pazyryk culture of Siberia. There's a great article about them here: www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/stunning-ancient-tattoos-pazyryk-nomads-002267
When did the plural become “deers”?
It's believed that Otzi's tattoos were actually a form of medicine/treatment for pain - possibly arthritis.
@@KateGladstone probably around when it started making more sense to say deers than deer, oh wait, it's always been that way
The best advice I have ever gotten on when to flip a pancake came from Swedish chef and author Johanna Westman's children's cook books: "The top of the pancake should look sort of like and old, sweaty slice of cheese." Never flipped one too early again after that
Very descriptive. Not sure I want to eat the resulting pancake after hearing it, though.
My severe pancake addiction started (funnily enough) with a cool piece of Swedish history. As a child I lived near a local history park/museum called Jamtli - where you could learn all about the history of the county and live it as you strolled around in the massive park area - where they had built up all manner of historical structures, time typical farms with animals, AND an old logger cottage. Now if you were brave enough to venture into the logger cottage - you'd meet two old loggers from the 18'th century in there (hired actors) seated around a small cooking fire. And using a cast iron skillet, they would fry up a typical loggers meal, namely bacon pancakes. And then you got to eat some of the pancake. And it was heavenly. First they'd fry up the diced bacon pieces in lard and let them cook, and then add the pancake batter. Flour, eggs, and some old fashioned farmers milk. The pancake came out fluffy, and slightly salty, and crispy around the edges. And you also got that smoky flavor from it being cooked over a real fire. Delicious!
My parents used to serve me this as a meal on winter outings. 😊
Swedish pork pancake (it's usually done with salted, smoked pork, not specifically bacon) is indeed heavenly - it's often served with lingonberries - the tart sweetness completes the smoky saltiness of the pancake. A lot of those recipes are done in an oven, in fact, not a frying pan. For general pancake goodness, we do consider crepes the only true pancakes.
Best part about recipes of the past must be the fact you don't have to read some bloggers whole life story before the recipe. This recipe made today would be like "Once, on my to way to my daughters soccer practice, we were talking casually about how butter made pancakes too dense. This made me think of my grandmothers garden, when I was little she would put butter-less pancakes to mulch her tomato plants ......*9 pages later*.....So the recipe is..."
This went straight to my soul.
If you buy a cookbook it will work the same way as cookbooks of the past.
Amen to that!
This is because you can't copyright recipes, so cookbook writers and food bloggers include these texts to try to protect their "brand."
Also theres more room to stick ads in there
My great grandmother used to sing the pancake song as follows:
Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, poor Jack went to plough, His mother made pancakes, she didn't know how, She tossed them, she turned them, she made them so black She put in so much peppercorn, she poisoned poor Jack.
woah
😳
Σ（ﾟдﾟlll）
Okay, I think you have finally topped my father's pancakes for "worst pancake." (For context: they are yeast-based but have no rise to them and are somehow burnt on the outside yet liquidy in the centers.)
😄 😁
I'm from the North of England, and my hometown still does Shrove Football. It's always a muddy free-for-all and there are prizes afterwards for good play (diligence, worrying the ball, pulling little kids away from the freezing river, etc). This year it didn't even rain!
Watching Max's take on pancakes. Love the prize for pulling children away from the freezing river. Me as a child....
Congrats on your pronounciation. As a Hungarian, who has seen quite a few foreigners attempting and failing to pronounce Hungarian words, I tip my hat to you as yours was almost perfect.
"Necromatic cooks" is possibly the most terrifying thing I have heard today.
Idk man Im kinda just imagining a baker waving their hands over some dough while commanding it to rise and laughing maniacally.
@@mikkellopez8429 😂🤣🤣
@@mikkellopez8429 Underrated comment!!!
"man, these pancakes are so good they could raise the dead"
Isn’t that the plot for that one quest in OSRS
I’m English, and Shrove Tuesday is still very much a thing in England. We call it pancake day and it’s still a very normal thing most people do. In fact when I was growing up it was the only day of the year we would ever eat pancakes and I think for many families it was the only day they would ever make pancakes
My mum would give us something light for dinner that day like cheese on toast, and then she would start to cook a long run of pancakes for us all. In England our pancakes are the same as French crepes, very thin unlike American ones, and we would have lemon juice and sugar on them and maybe homemade strawberry jam. I used to manage maybe 4 before becoming too full, we would stuff ourselves with them
Odd to think it’s a medieval tradition that still lingers. But I think now twenty years later it’s probably still like when I was a child and most families do it
@bribripot atherston do, and still on Shrove Tuesday
Same for our family only ate pancakes on shrove Tuesday just as you described. ❣️
You should go back to the tradition of also being Shriven.Henry messed up a lot of what was England.
When I was a child (soooo many years ago) we sprinkled sugar over a pancake and then squeezed orange juice on top (a quarter of an orange was enough for one pancake). It wasn’t until we spent a couple of years in Canada that we “discovered” maple syrup and “American style” pancakes. Now I love those thicker pancakes, served with butter & maple syrup :)
This recipe reminds me more of the dropped scone (or pikelet, in Australia) recipe I used to have. Much richer than a traditional pancake, so usually done as two or three in circles. Lovely cold, just with some butter.
Yes exactly how you described, thin line a french crepe and rolled up like a sausage. Although the Irish in us would come out and we would cook our pancakes in salted butter so you would have the light sweet lemonade taste with a hint of saltiness and the richness of the butter... Oh my goodness it's delicious!
Delicious! I watched this in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep, and then made them for myself and my 2 small kids for breakfast. We loved them! Topped them with a TINY drizzle of honey “for that golden flavor” and a nice glob of applesauce. I love this channel. It makes my heart happy 😊
Same here, watching in the middle of the night.
I live near Bobs Red Mill in Milwaukie OR, they always smell amazing
Our eternal quest to find out just how many Pokemon plushes one adult man can own.
How many Pokemon have been made into plushes?
893
Far more than a child I'd say.
That Jack Taylor description is so metal. Necromatic Cooks is now the name of my death metal cooking show.
We still have Shrove Tuesday (or just pancake day) in the UK. In England, pancakes are the crepe style and are traditionally topped with lemon juice and sugar (but Nutella is popular these days) and folded, but in Scotland, they have the thick style that is common in the US. (They're originally from Scotland btw and we refer to them as Scottish pancakes).
Ötzi: This looks like good place to eat lunch. I think I'll have me some Einkorn pancakes and smoked ibex that I stole from the guy down in the valley. What could go wrong?!
"To make fine pan-cakes fried without butter or lard"
Me: Oh, so we're going to be healthy here.
"Take a pint of cream..."
Me: Wait, WHAT???
well come on, whats a pint of cream between friends it hardly has any calories at all! :P
@@christophhofland8890 LOL
It's Vogue. They're obsessed with carbs and staying skeletal thin.
@@PapaBushka What does Vogue have to do with anything??
Serai3 Ah yes, the Vogue fashion magazine of the early 1600’s, don’t ya know? :P
Definitely feel you on pancakes. The first 2-3 are bliss. But you can't stop yourself so you end up a ruined mess, stuffed to bursting.
Many a Sunday has been made useless through a pancake breakfast.
As I grew older, my capacity decreased, but I can still stuff myself with a horrendously satisfying amount of palacsinta. With cinnamon sugar (honestly, the best seasoning, also cinnamon regulates blood sugar, so it decreases the consequences of stuffing yourself with pancakes), or with battered curd/cottage cheese (called túró in Hungarian).
Eh pancakes go right through me. Ill eat like 10/till im stuffed and an hour later ill be hungry again.
My solution is have family. By the time I'm done cooking the pancakes, there are usually only a few left! 😭
@@TastingHistory Try with something more savory. Like I had creamcheese and smoked salmon on mine this weekend. It's still delicious but you don't ruin the rest of the day completely. Still save a couple for syrup though.
Edit. Had to add that in Norway we tend to but bacon bits or Flesk in pancakes. You should try that too. This is more dinner oriented though.
Anybody else notice how there's a different Pokémon in the corner every time? I'm impressed by how many of them he has.
I personally love crepes. But when making the fluffy pancakes, it brings me back to my childhood. Left over pancakes were used like bread. Spread a little peanut butter on it, and that was lunch. Or a little ham salad, tuna salad, or roll it up with bologna.
Part of me wants to say, this would have been a perfect show for the history channel,
But the other part, says that the history channel isn't good enough anymore.
On the History Channel it would have featured Hitler's favorite pancake made by Aliens. So I agree Max's version is better.
Please God not history channel. Netflix may be.
They would have to talk about how the ancient aliens made pancakes while they were building the pyramids. And then transition to Nazi leaders' favorite recipes.
@@Lisasimpsonfan lmao, honestly that sounds amusing
Yeah. Outside of the war documentaries they probably should be called the Consipiracy Channel.
"Shiny to Matte"
I have watched so many pancake videos and never heard this. I can't wait to try it because that is life changing advice.
It works 😁
Dude
That's the secret - it's shiny while it's liquid, matte means its turned solid - ready to flip.
Shiney not shiny
Greetings from Hungary! You really nailed the pronounciation of palacsinta, it's advanced level!
In Hungary we have a lot of different kinds of pancakes, which we call palacsinta. They are actually closer to what you would call crepes. We have Gundel palacsinta, as you mentioned, stuffed with nuts and topped with chocolate syrup. Another really famous one is the Hortobágyi húsos palacsinta, which translates to meaty pancakes from Hortobágy. It's a savory version stuffed with minced meat and topped with sour cream, and it's folded just as the Gundel ones, that you showed on the picture, two times, making a triangular shape. However, the most traditional kinds that you would find almost everywhere are just basically crepes that we spread different toppings on and roll them up. The most common toppings are cocoa-powder, nutella, jam and túró (which is like curd) mixed with sugar and lemon or orange peels. However, my favourite topping is cinnamon mixed with sugar.
In South Africa, we eat pancakes when it is a rainy day. We eat them covered with cinnamon sugar. That makes me feel nostalgic.
We have savoury ones too, but those are fancy, for a starter. I've had a starter pancake filled with a mixture of chopped bacon/ pork and cherries. So goooood.
That sounds like a nice custom, brightening a rainy day with delicious pancakes. Or maybe just a good excuse to eat a lot of pancakes :)
Oh damn! That sounds good, might try that out myself!
The cinnamon one sounds yummmy
I've had some stuffed dinner crepes that were to die for in Canada too. At home I make regular white pancake mix w/ a dollop of yogurt and vanilla to the wet ingredients. Or for a stick to your ribs alternative, I'll make buckwheat pancake mix w/ a dash of cinnamon (half buckwheat flour/half wholewheat, barley/white flour, so they are still fluffy).
Milk tart pancakes are delicious too (and I usually am a bit ambivalent about milk tart!). Nice to see a fellow South African :)
"They were probably good when Ötzi was eating them ... before he got murdered." J'adore.
Maybe his assailants wanted his recipe??
What a uncivilized time he lived in when he couldn't even finish his food before he was murdered.
His assailants had no manners i swear.
@@anelbegic2780 if his assailants had eaten some of that pancake, they would have stopped being barbarians and become civilized people xD
Gang hit.
I can't believe I just found this channel a few days ago. It's great! Having said that, I want to mention boxty/bacstai, the Irish potato pancake. They're savory and when they're thin they can be filled with one or more of meat, vegetables, cheese and herbs. They're good on their own too.
I’ve just discovered your channel a few days ago and must have watched two dozen of your videos! Enjoy the history and entertainment. I like your delightful erudite nerdiness.
I grew up eating pancakes - or rather, crepes - for weekend brunch, rolled up and slathered in sirop d’érable… sometimes filled with applesauce and cheddar or ham slices and cheddar.
Now I make my crepes with fizzy water kefir, which makes them light and tender, egg, and a mix of wheat and fine buckwheat flour.
My favourite toppings before I roll them up are maple sirup, apricot or cherry jam, melted bittersweet chocolate chips and raspberries, or apples sautéed In butter and maple syrup, with lightly toasted walnuts and cardamom.
Crepes are still a frequent favourite!
The intro makes me suspect I'm about to learn how to use pancakes to punish myself for my sins
🤣
Oh what a punishment your sins will take.
I suppose the way to do that is eating yourself silly and getting a stomach ache
oh munchlax in the back for pancakes is a BIG mood
I am munchlax when it comes to pancakes.
@@TastingHistory do u evolve to snorlax when finished?
@@derrickallen8138 Basically : )
@@derrickallen8138 I really need a giggle emoji for this
@@TastingHistory How many would it take to Gigantimax into Gmax Snorlax?
I cannot possibly overstate how utterly enjoyable, entertaining, and satisfying this show is. I fucking love the video structure, everything is so well-paced, and I feel like I could genuinely cook and enjoy these historical foods at home and appreciate the story behind them. I honestly don't know how one would improve on this. Keep it up and thank you for the phenomenal content.
Honestly. From the old music to the foods to the original sources to the personality, I love it all. Especially recently, I have been getting the most visceral pleasure, and yet also a degree of legitimate knowledge from your videos. It's kinda the best.
"And if you want less... Who would want less?" I totally laughed out loud. 🤣
TASTING HISTORY: We'd be here all day...
ME: I'd be alright with that.
Same xD
Max, could you please publish your pancake research? I'd love to read it!
When he was dissing the Vogue Magazine - I felt that! :D
🤣
@@TastingHistory you are awesome man, please keep up the good work - I love every single one of your videos :) uh and by the way, the devil wears prada is one of my alltime favorites ;)
@@theferalmaker Glad I wasn't the only one who caught that reference! :)
@@Cyssane Hahaha :D
Don’t ever change the way that you run this channel.
You have kept me sane during this pandemic
My chef’s hat off to you Sir!!!
Max, nice episode. One of my favorite sayings comes from Poland, where i understand they eat pancakes early, often, and in many variations. The saying is "He (or she) is serving first pancakes" - meaning whatever it is they're doing is not quite ready for prime-time, referring of course to the fact that the first one or two pancakes before the pan is properly seasoned tend to break or not brown properly... enjoy!
"To make pancakes without butter or lard"
...starts with a pint of cream... ;D
I love this channel. ;D
I'm by no means an expert, but I suspect that the reasoning when the recipe was written wasn't "fat bad, get rid of lard" but rather "cream is an earlier stage of dairy than butter = more easily obtained fat". Until industrial food production and global distribution became abundant, fat was thought of as a good thing, even a luxury. A solid fat reserve was what you survived on during lean years, and food production can be very unpredictable when you only have local, mostly small scale production to rely on.
And then uses butter on the pan! Hah
@@helenanilsson5666, he said that the cookbook was from Cromwellian England. Cooking with butter and lard was seen as indulgent and therefore related to papists or royalists. Milk and cream were not quite as bad.
@@alexandramiles-lasseter8263 Cream isn’t indulgent? You haven’t seen me load up my scones. 😆
Between this and Binging With Babish doing The Four Horsemeals of the Eggporkalypse I'm just basically going to have to make a proper breakfast tomorrow
I can’t even talk about how much I generally dislike citrus but Crepe Suzette really is that damn good.
Am currently curled up on my sofa after consuming too many pancakes. This feels like a good viewing choice.
To quote Mitch Hedberg, "You can't be like pancakes... All exciting at first, but by the end, you're sick of 'em."
Glad to say this channel is not like pancakes. It's more like fine wine. The longer it's here, the better it gets. (and I often enjoy too much of it and neglect my responsibilities!)
I love that quote!
Dude so much for IHOP being the "international" house of pancakes
Right?!
they only serve American pancakes and they can only be found in America, the lies keep coming
Englishman here. We still makes pancakes similar to that on shrove Tuesday (pancake day) we normally have them with just lemon juice and sugar. Delicious.
We used to make Palascintas growing up for special occasions. It's one of the few things my grandparents kept with their heritage when they fled during WWI.
If you turned these videos into a cookbook (with a medieval looking binding), I would definitely buy it.
Keep the good work!
Pls LLP
Yes would be awesome
I take it you are very happy right now since he just announced an upcoming cookbook.
His cookbook is available to order now! 😊
I'm a simple man, I see a tasting history video and I click
It’s a good rule of thumb.
Your delivery of the Vogue quote, and then your rejoinder, were perfect.
One of my ancestors was President of the US. President Hayes. Apparently he was a huge pancake lover. One of the things we have in common!
I'm surprised you didn't tie in the "fat" of Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras as the using up of all the butter/fat before Lent by frying pancakes.
Also, congrats on consistently producing a high-quality, very entertaining show each week just sitting in a chair in front of your kitchen sink with a stuffed toy in the background. That takes skills. (Maybe the charming smile and dazzling blue eyes have a little to do with it. Jose, what do you think?)
Like a young George Michael
Is that why it's called Fat Tuesday? Lived in Mobile with its Mardi Gras my entire life and nobody ever told me. Didn't even know pancakes were involved.
@@BacchaeOphanim Before lent, you were supposed to use up all that 'naughty' stuff like sugar and fats then you fast for 40 days in remembrance of Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness. And then you stuff yourself full of chocolate on Easter Sunday :-) So pancakes was a good way to use up , well in this case, eggs and a barrel-full of cream, it would seem!
@@jillp1840 the amount of inaccuracies in your statement is baffling lol
@@WhiteRaven___ Whatever. www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Pancake-Day/
"But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean."
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Who loves Devil Wears Prada? 🙋🏻♀️
I love the Munchlax in the background…that little Pokémon is a TANK. Clearly able to assist you with the largest stack of pancakes. Mmmmmm…pancakes
Lay me on the couch and check that I'm breathing. A pretty great line.
It brings me an inordinate amount of quiet satisfaction to know pancakes are a universal food
Cooking round-shaped starch-based batter is the first step to civilization.
"For this recipe, you will need..."
Omg the chills just received.
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That opening intro to pancakes is spot on. Love to eat them but they are always filled with regret
As a life long pancake lover, and somewhat of an enthusiast of pancake varietals, I had to try this recipe.
Absolutely going in my rotation of breakfast recipes! The texture was dense but not heavy, the nutmeg (couldn't find mace) was pleasant and appreciated, especially with the drier bites. Tried one cake with honey and crushed walnuts and it was good. Then two more cakes with maple syrup, nuts, a few blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. Delicious.
I love history and pancakes, thank you Max!
Can't be happier than when I see Max uploaded
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Tuesday has become my favourite day!
I went to an Ethiopian restaurant with some friends a couple years ago and it was such a good experience. Highly recommend..
Same. Ethiopian food is the bomb
Girl, you referenced "The Devil Wears Prada". Amazing.
It's interesting you mentioning wanting a compote at the end. When I was a kid my mom would make me pancake role ups with jam.
The “Collapse of Civilizations” podcast was my initial crack during coronavirus but this became my second crack so now I have two cracks . I’m am an historical crack addict.
8:20 Max saying "We'd be here all day if I didn't shorten the list." as if that's not what we wanted all along
"Who wouldn't want more pancakes? Does not compute..."
I love you Max.
" and one nutmeg"
Townsends approves of this recipe.
They tried to put me on the cover of Vogue, but my cakes were toooo thiccc
I don't always eat pancakes but when I do, I wear a cerulean military jacket.
Love this video. My parents (who were Church of Scotland) told us that the point of shrove Tuesday was to use up the things in your kitchen that you would be giving up for lent, hence the tendency to top pancakes with sugar or other sweet things.
Watched while eating our tradition of Sunday morning pancakes: Krusteaz brand, made with 10 chocolate chips each (5 dark, 5 white, the number exact to prevent the kids from fighting over them). Two stacked on a paper towel and carried to my office, with a mug of tea, to watch videos for as long as I can before the world comes in.
"When it comes to the cerulean blue military jackets by Yves Saint Laurent you may know what you're talking about but when it comes to breakfast foods you're out of your league." I almost spit my tea.
"Fat Tuesday" or "Mardi Gras" was so called because it was a way to use up the things not allowed during Lenten days of old - butter, eggs, milk. The larder had to be cleared of animal products, and so it became a way to mark the last day before Lent - a day of "feasting on the fat" so to speak. My favourite type of "pancakes" are from a Polish cookbook. Nalisniki, a crepe like pancake is filled with a mushroom/breadcrumb/onion mixture, then folded into quarters, like an envelope. It's then dipped in beaten eggs and finally breadcrumbs and fried in hot oil. They are exquisite - crunchy and golden on the outside, while inside are layers of crepe and savoury mushroom filling.
Used to make something like this during college. Mother used to make these once a year or so, but once i learned how to make it, i made it every now and then. Very nice.
9:12 Everybody gangsta until the Pancake Bell rings.
11:40 "dad, what do we do if they ask for less pancakes?" "we ask them firmly yet politely to leave, son"
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I love hearing about Ötzi, he carried two mushrooms along with him and I love him for that. Carried birch polypore and tinder conk, one for medicine and one for firestarter
Pancakes are my favorite breakfast . . . love them!
Fun fact: In Finland Pancake is something pretty different and our "pancake" is pretty much a crepe called "Lätty" or "Räiskäle"
This young fella is an absolute hilarious delight to listen to!
Much love from Belgium.
My church (Anglican) still does a big meal of pancakes for our Mardi Gras celebration. Including doing games and such. Its fantastic to know this is an old tradition for England. X3
Thank you yet again for the history lesson it’s fascinating that nearly every cu,true has developed the pancake
As someone with an interest in cooking, history, and linguistics, this channel is absolutely perfect for me, seeing all the old recipes is fascinating. Love the channel, keep up the good work!
Refreshed my homepage and here it is. The first blessing of the day.
Blessings of pancakes
@@TastingHistoryalso nuts, berries, and honey
We usedto eat a very thin pancake, which was very soft, spread with lemon juice, (try to grab the lemon pips), then a sprinkling of sugar, roll them to mop up as much lemon juice as possible, then, with a knife and fork, cut the rolled pancake into bite sized pieces, and enjoy !
I feel hungry already, ready for the English pancake race, wherein you would gather in the main street of your town, pancake in frying pan, wait for the starting whistle, then run the allotted course, tossing the pancake all the while.
The winner was obviously the one who completed the course, and tossed (or flipped), the pancake, finally at the finish line.
More recipes like this one please !
Stay safe,
Stu xx
Banana Pancakes: mash bananas and add flour to consistency of standard pancake batter. My kids loved them with chocolate chips added. They cook up fine but my favorites were always sour dough pancakes that I set the sponge out the night before.
I'm from the UK and have recently discovered that not everyone puts currants in their pancakes, just my family. I just assumed everyone else did it too. Wonder where that started
Probably the same as me and lingonberry jam.
Thats perverted and wrong behaviour and you should apologise to Her Majesty immediately
Sounds kinda like me. I'm from the US and have recently discovered that not everyone puts cum in their pancakes, just my family. I just assumed everyone else did too. Wonder where that started
One pancake I often make using Aunt Jemima batter is my “Cinnabon” pancake. When prepping the batter, mix in cinnamon sugar and vanilla. Do not overmix, you want it fluffy. Pour into the pan into the center of a mixture of butter and canola oil for a crisped edge. Top it off with white chocolate chips and some more cinnamon. After it has finished cooking, coat with some syrup that has been mixed with cinnamon powder, and cream cheese frosting.
I need to get some of that!
@@TastingHistory That would take you 2 days to recover from!
That sounds delicious. That's going into the recipe book for sure!
Toni Hinton You aren’t kidding. It is a very rich tasting pancake. Normally get through two at most, but then again I make them about 7-8 inches across and up to half an inch thick.
Halo2glitchlover22 Better than using vegetable oil. At least with canola oil you don’t get a funky taste and it crisps the edges beautifully.
Injera is delicious! The texture is wonderful and the taste is like, pleasantly vinegar-y which goes really well with the food you find on top of it :) It's not often I run into someone acknowledging its existence, I would love to know how to make it!
I tried this recipe. I wasn't expecting much, but it was actually so good! Wow.
Since I didn't know what it was going to taste like, I had mine topped with strawberries, but I feel bananas would make the perfect complement here. Absolutely am going to try this again.