Pancakes

Pancakes are one of the most ancient of foods, and appear across the world. At their most basic the Western European pancake is a mixture of flour, water or milk, and egg, but even within that there are variations. Maria Rundell, the author of the book from which this is taken, suggested that if eggs were hard to come by you could use ‘clean snow’ instead (actual snow, which apparently helps to aerate the mixture; we haven’t tested this, however). Rundell was one of the mos