National Pancake Week February 21-27
Foods similar to pancakes can be dated back to the ancient Romans – they enjoyed a simple flatbread consisting of flour, milk, eggs and spices, sweetened with honey or fruits and called “Alita Dolcia”.
Nutrition Nibble: For healthier pancakes on the fly, buy regular pancake mix that just require water for cooking and stir in one-third cup of old-fashioned oats and a little extra water for each cup of mix. Quick, easy, tastes great and boosts the nutritional value of your pancakes considerably.
Germans gave us the famous and delectable Potato Pancake.
The ingredients of pancakes also has special significance:
- Eggs: Creation
- Flour: The staff of life
- Salt: Wholesomeness
- Milk: Purity
Grab this pancake cooking tip to make those pancakes perfect every time…
We add many things to our pancakes these days – the variations are absolutely endless. But we can share the nutrition information for a basic pancake, made with whole milk and eggs. You can dramatically cut fat and calories by using skim milk and egg substitute. You’ll still get great pancakes, especially if you season and flavor with spices and/or fruit. For example, adding cinnamon and vanilla makes wonderful pancakes, yet adds zero calories or fat. Plus, cinnamon has health benefits. See Essential Nutrients: Cinnamon
1 6-inch plain pancake:
- Calories: 180
- Total fat: 10g (sat. fat 2g)
- Cholesterol: 45mg
- Sodium: 340mg
- Carbohydrates: 20g
- Dietary fiber: 3g
- Protein: 5g
The most nutritious pancakes are homemade and contain fat free milk and whole grain or whole wheat flour with added orange or lemon juice.
We all know the pancake, so instead of reading about them, how about whipping some up? And we have a list of suggested recipes to keep you in pancakes all year!
Whole Wheat Pancakes
Light-as-a-Feather Whole Wheat Pancakes (Whole Grain Healthy Recipe)
Whole Wheat Blueberry Pancakes
Cream of Wheat Pancakes (Healthy Grain Recipe)
Potato Pancakes
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Oatmeal Pancakes (Diabetic friendly)
Oat Bran Pancakes (Diabetic friendly)
Honey Pancakes (Diabetic friendly)
Whole Wheat Blueberry Pancakes
Gluten Free Blender Pancakes (Wheat Free Recipe)
Mini Pancakes with Strawberry Sauce (Diabetic friendly)
Cornmeal Pancakes with Serrano and Ginger
Rice Flour and Yogurt Pancakes (Wheat Free Recipe)
Multi-Grain Blueberry Pancake Mix (Low fat recipe)
Multigrain Pancakes (Low calorie recipe)
Pancakes with Garbanzo (Chickpea) Flour (Gluten free recipe)
Orange Cranberry Pancakes
Light and Fluffy Pancakes (Vegetarian pancakes)
Silver Dollar Pancakes
Granola Pancakes
Gluten Free Pancakes
Apple Pancakes
Banana Nut Pancakes (Wheat Free Recipe)
Vegetarian Apple Pancakes
Cinnamon Apple Pancakes
Vegan-Vegetarian Pancakes
Low Carb Pancakes
Beef and Potato Pancakes (Low Sodium Recipe)
Almond Buckwheat Pancakes (Healthy Grain Recipe)
Cinnamon Oat Pancake Mix
Pecan Pancakes
Cranberry Pancakes
Breakfast Fruit Pancakes (Healthy Grain Recipe)
Cinnamon Pancakes with Maple Butter (Low Carb recipe)
Orange Pancakes
Zucchini Pancakes
Burst of Cinnamon Pancakes
Blueberry Yogurt Pancakes (Healthy Grain Recipe)
Buttermilk Pancakes
Soy Pancakes
Buckwheat Pancakes
Banana-Pecan Pancakes
Paleo Pancakes (Paleolithic Recipe)
Sweet Chestnut Pancakes (Gluten free recipe)
Peanut Butter and Jelly Stacks
Applesauce Pancakes
Blintz Pancakes
Potato Pancakes
Banana-Oat Pancakes (Healthy Soy Recipe)
Perfect Pumpkin Pancakes
Apple Slice Pancakes
Orange Pancakes (Quick ‘n Easy Recipe)
“Pancakes have long been a staple of the American breakfast table, and their history is as old as that of the Native Americans who shaped a soft batter in their hands and called it, in the Narragansett, nokehick (it is soft), transmuted by early white settlers into ” no cake.” Cornmeal pancakes were called “Indian cakes” as early as 1607. The Dutch in America made similar cakes from buckwheat, panekoeken, which by 1740 were called “buckwheat cakes.” English settlers brought with them the feast of Pancake Tuesday, an old name for Shrove Tuesday, the day before the Lenten fast begins…By 1745 Americans were also referring to hoe cakes,” perhaps because they were cooked on a flat hoe blade…One of the most beloved versions of this simple cake is the Johnnycake [also known as journey cake], specifically associated with Rhode Island…The word “pancake” itself was not in general usage until the 1870s…”
—Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, John F. Mariani [Lebhar-Friedman:New York] 1999 (p. 229-30)
