Official decision on the naming of certain wheaty comestibles

[gentlegreen]

Pikelets may be Welsh :-

"The name "bara pyglyd" (pronounced puglud) means pitchy bread. These were little dark breads, scones or pancakes made from buckwheat flour. Welsh teas centred around the occupation of the household. In north Wales a dish called "swper chwarel" (quarry supper) was eaten at five in the afternoon when the men came in from their labours in the quarry. I have no doubt that in south Wales, which is where my father worked in the coal mine, that the same thing applied. The Welsh were also very fond of "crempog" (pancakes oozing with butter); and "bara pyglyd (pitchy bread)" (pikelets, similar to crumpets, that have spongy holes in them to absorb the butter). " Margaret E. Walker

http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/RECIPES/RECIPES/Breads/drop_scones.html

 

[Bonfirelight]

if i said "i'm making some pancakes - anyone want any?"

what would you be expecting me to bring you?
these

or these?

 

[gentlegreen]

if i said "i'm making some pancakes - anyone want any?"

what would you be expecting me to bring you?

The first of those two - except my mum's were always huge, thick, anaemic-looking things which we piled high with white granulated and doused in lemon juice.

I myself sometimes make heavy "vegan chapattis" with wholemeal flour and water, cooked in a smoking wok, and eat them with a variety of toppings including margerine, maple syrup, tahini, baked beans .....

 

[lang rabbie]

if i said "i'm making some pancakes - anyone want any?"

what would you be expecting me to bring you?
these

or these?

It would depend whether you were one of my English great-aunts or my Scottish great-aunts, naturally.

 

[danny la rouge]

if i said "i'm making some pancakes - anyone want any?"

what would you be expecting me to bring you?

^These. It wouldn't even cross my mind you might mean something else. I'd be startled if you brought me crepes/crumpets. I make pancakes all the time, and it's pancakes I make, not crepes.

 

[Idaho]

I would probably wait until the pancakes turned up rather than judging in advance.

 

[danny la rouge]

I would probably wait until the pancakes turned up rather than judging in advance.

And if pancakes didn't turn up, but instead crepes did, how would you react?

 

[trabuquera]

I wouldn't care ... crepes, pancakes, crumpets, pikelets, they're all the food of the gods.
Even muffins have souls. they're all god's wheaty children.

 

[Louloubelle]

Blinis are the food of the gods, with sour cream and caviar of course. Or lobster at a push

 

[Idaho]

And if pancakes didn't turn up, but instead crepes did, how would you react?

I would say "yum, pancakes, thanks"

 

[Poot]

I wondered why I had always been confused about these things (not that I think about them much, you understand). Must be because I have one Scottish and one English parent.

We still fight about the whole turnip/swede thing. Though this thread is the wrong place to bring up that particular argument.

 

[fudgefactorfive]

Pikelet:

Also a pikelet:

American Pancake:

Crumpets just don't exist. Well known fact.

The Welsh etymology of pikelets makes sense to me - all my folks on one side (all of whom are healthy Crumpet Deniers) are from the Black Country back to the 16th cenutry but there was a little to-ing and fro-ing from Wales, I was born in south Wales myself.

 

[Idaho]

Sorry but the vote is 30-5. You and your sort can either make your way quietly to the camps or await relocation by the Committee for Crumpet Integrity.

 

[lang rabbie]

the Committee for Crumpet Integrity.

Committee
for
Crumpet
Integrity​

Now there's a T shirt slogan.

 

[danny la rouge]

Sorry but the vote is 30-5. You and your sort can either make your way quietly to the camps or await relocation by the Committee for Crumpet Integrity.

RACIST!

 

[*Miss Daisy*]

The house proposes that this be the official designation given to said foodstuffs:

Crumpet:

Pikelet:

Scotch Pancake

Correct!!!!!

 

[gentlegreen]

Damn this thread - I was forced to buy some krampouezh (number 1 pancakey thing) today

All I have to do now is find a viable toasting device ....

 

[Idaho]

I don't actually eat the gorgeous little rascals any more as I have to avoid wheat

 

[Poot]

I don't actually eat the gorgeous little rascals any more as I have to avoid wheat

You can't start that kind of argument and then drop a bombshell like that!

 

[Idaho]

I'm a rotter, it's true

 

[gentlegreen]

I think I need therapy now