flapjack

flap·jack

F0166800 (flăp′jăk′)n.1. See pancake.2. Chiefly British A hard or chewy bar traditionally made from oats and brown sugar, softened with butter and golden syrup, and then baked.

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[Earlier flap, to flip (a pancake) + jack, fellow (as used to form the name of objects and contrivances).]

flapjack

(ˈflæpˌdʒæk) n1. (Cookery) a chewy biscuit made with rolled oats2. (Cookery) US and Canadian and NZ another word for pancake[C17: from flap (in the sense: toss) + jack¹]

flap•jack

(ˈflæpˌdʒæk)

n. griddlecake; pancake. [1590–1600]

flapjack

pancake

Flapjack

When this glossary was prepared, “flap-jack” was synonymous with pancake, but there were many different formulations for pancakes and in the 1920s, households occasionally reserved the name flapjack for a pancake made from some particular recipe.

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flapjack - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddlebattercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake, griddlecakecake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fatbuckwheat cake - a pancake made with buckwheat flourbuttermilk pancake - a pancake made with buttermilkblini, bliny - Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour creamblintz, blintze - (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or bakedcrape, French pancake, crepe - small very thin pancakegerman pancake, pfannkuchen - puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit saucelatke, potato pancake - made of grated potato and egg with a little flourtortilla - thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour

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