The batter used to make pancakes is almost exactly the same as the batter used to make regular cakes. The pancake batter is just a little thinner. Cooking this thin batter on a skillet makes a quick, hot little cake that makes a tasty breakfast. Pancakes have become so popular, that people don't just eat them for breakfast an more.
Many people like to eat pancakes for dinner.
The Shorter Oxford Dictionary refers to pancakes as flapjacks too, and says that the name started in the United States around the year 1600. Pancake Day is celebrated in Newfoundland on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, which is the beginning of Lent. As an additional treat, items are placed in the pancake batter before it is cooked to foretell the future for family members. If a boy recieved an item for a trade, it meant he would enter that trade. If a girl recieved an item for a trade, it meant she would marry a person from that trade.