Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welsh cakes are one of my favourite comestibles! My daughter, who lives in Llangoed on Anglesey, makes them for me whenever I visit. Frank. ----- Original Message ---- From: Marc Thomas <marc at cs.york.ac.uk> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, 23 September, 2010 12:44:35 Subject: Re: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... Not! I'll speak up for my home country's vaguely pancake shaped offering, the Welsh cake ( I know, were just naturally gifted at naming things, actual welsh name is teisen radell/)/ Imagine a very thin lightly fruited scone cooked on a round griddle or stone, served hot with plenty of butter and/or jam, sometimes served stacked up with butter in between and cut like a cake. Marc Douglas Sharp wrote: > Right, the thicker ones are drop scones or griddle scones in Yorkshire >English,( or Scotch pancakes or girdle pancakes) - and you don't have to >eat >them on a Tuesday :-) > > The griddle or girdle is a thick, round, cast iron plate with a bow handle > that >can either be set on a hob or hung over a fire > > Make them with yeast, and they turn into pikelets (West Midlands and > Yorkshire) >- often sold ready-made under the name of crumpets. > > In the Potteries area (Staffordshire), they make a pancake from oats - > oatcakes >- that are served with almost anything from jam to baked beans and curry. >When I >lived in Hanley, and later Longton, in the early seventies, they were >almost as >popular as fish and chips, and no one had ever even heard of Kebabs. > > http://www.staffordshireoatcakes.com/ > > Cheers > Douglas > > On 23.09.2010 11:13, Peter Cheyne wrote: >> Mark, >> >> In English English, we call those thin fried cakes made from batter >> 'pancakes' >>. You can have fun trying to flip them in one swift flick of the wrist. >>In >>Japanese English they call the thicker, perhaps US, variety 'hot-cakes'. >> >> Maybe these tiny thin pancake lenses should be selling like 'hot cakes'. >> >> All the best, >> >> Peter Cheyne >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information