Are you craving a pancake?

Sometimes, I feel like want to eat this delicious dishes all the time. I've tasted it when I was hanging out with my friend at Obrigado, located at Renon, Denpasar, Bali. I was ordered the pancake with an addition apple pie on it and my friend ordered the pancake with vanilla ice cream and special topping, blueberry jam. If you guys are still wondering what pancakes are and looked like, here's some description of it. 

A pancake is a thin, flat, round cake prepared from a batter, and cooked on a hot griddle or frying pan. Most pancakes are quick breads; some use a yeast-raised or fermented batter. Most pancakes are cooked one side on a griddle and flipped partway through to cook the other side. Depending on the region, pancakes may be served at any time, with a variety of toppings or fillings including jam, chocolate chips, fruit, syrup or meat.

You guys must be so surprised if there is a Pancake Day. In Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia, pancakes are traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday, which is also known as "Pancake Day" and, particularly in Ireland, as "Pancake Tuesday". (Shrove Tuesday is better known in the United States, France and other countries as Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday.) Historically, pancakes were made on Shrove Tuesday so that the last of the fatty and rich foods could be used up before Lent.

An Uncle Karl's Swedish Pancakes

Charity and school events are organized on Pancake Day: in a "pancake race" each participant carries a pancake in a frying pan. All runners must toss their pancakes as they run and catch them in the frying pan. This event is said to have originated in Olney, England in 1444 when a housewife was still busy frying pancakes to eat before the Lenten fast when she heard the bells of St Peter and St Paul's Church calling her to the Shriving Service. Eager to get to church, she ran out of her house still holding the frying pan complete with pancake, and still wearing her apron and headscarf. Pancake Day is widely celebrated in Australia.

Every Shrove Tuesday since 1950 the towns of Olney and Liberal, Kansas have competed in the International Pancake Race. Only local women may compete; they race, and their times are compared to determine the international winner. In Olney the main women's race is augmented by races for local schoolchildren and for men.

Reading this whole article makes my crave for pancakes is healed even though not at all. I would like to learn how to make a great pancake from my friend, but when I searched on internet it looked so complicated so I decided to buy it some time with my friends at Obrigado, cause anyway I'm bad in cooking some dishes. 

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake