Monday, October 1, 2012

Interesting Pancake Facts

By Ben Panny


1. The tradition of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday in just about 1000 years old.

2. On Pancake Day in Newfoundland individuals place items in the pancake batter before it is actually cooked to foretell the future for family members. If it occurs that boy receives item for a trade, it implies he will enter the trade but if a girls receives item from a trade, it means she will marry an individual from trade.

3. Maple syrup which is often utilized as a topping, was originally a sweet drink which was discovered by the Algonquin Indians. To produce this drink, sap was collected from Canadian sugar maple trees and next it was boiled.

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

5. It is frequent in France to touch the handle of the frying pan and to make a wish at the same time 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 rapid) and 'Mardi Gras' (literally '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 known for the tradition of eating salt, meat and peas. In Greece it is actually called 'Apocreas', which signifies 'from the meat', as it's traditional for Greeks not to consume meat during Lent.

7. The 1st 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 known as Jan Stickland covered amazing 345 meters in 59.5 seconds. It was in 1985 year.

9. The largest quantity of pancakes tossed in the shortest amount of time in the UK is 349 tosses in two 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 three 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 very prevalent for priests to hear people's confessions to prepare them for Lent.

12. In the US, Pancake Day is commonly referred to as Mardi Gras. In French 'Mardi Gras' suggests 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 usually prepared with buckwheat and they're 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 at the same time continually tossing a pancake for 3 hours, two minutes and twenty seven seconds.

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




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