Philobiblon

A considerably better than usual newspaper history of the pancake. (I.e. not just done from last year’s clippings.)

So enjoy, from the 1750s…

…in upper-class dining rooms, a new culinary invention began to drive diners wild: known as ”quire of paper”, this new pancake was made with a cream-rich batter, cooked as vast and whisper-thin as possible on charcoal-fired stoves. Traditionally, it was served with sugar, butter and a scrape of nutmeg and with bowls of thickened creams redolent with the volatile oils of lemons and oranges.