[ noun ] a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle <noun.food>
Pancake \Pan"cake`\ (p[a^]n"k[=a]k`), n. A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. ``A pancake for Shrove Tuesday.'' --Shak.
Mrs. Schindler's sister, Sheila Turner, set the record for the Liberal pancake race in 1975 with a time of 58.5 seconds.
The pancake is a very old form of bread.
In 1976, Springfield bested Battle Creek for the longest table with a pancake breakfast as part of its celebration of the nation's bicentennial.
"They kept telling me, 'You just an old battlefield general who can't change with the times,'" Mr. Williams says, sitting beneath a poster of a pancake box with a black fist through it and the face of a scowling Aunt Jemima.
Previously, competitors had continuously to flip a pancake in a pan as they ran, but nowadays only a toss at the start and finish is required.
ONE pancake splattered on the ceiling, one ego shattered on the floor.
He was the most outrageous of the early rockers with a 6-inch pompadour, pancake makeup, a pencil-thin mustache and an all-out attack on the piano.
The bank also hired new managers who organized simple but diverse social activities, such as ice-cream socials and pancake breakfasts.
Some say the pancake may have been a bribe to the bellringer to ring the bell sooner to signal the start of celebrations on the last day before Lent, which traditionally include pancakes.
Between them, tiny white flowers hide buckwheat for pancake flour; tough green pods protect cotton for cloth; and towering stems support giant yellow sunflowers for snacks and birdfeed.
Marsha Streiff won the Liberal leg of the Shrove Tuesday trans-Atlantic pancake race for a second consecutive year today, but for the sixth straight time the title went to England.
Commercials for carry-out chicken and non-gritty laxative and a dishwasher liquid that can miraculously clean hardened pancake batter from a chandelier.
They didn't have to flip to pick the winner of the annual Shrove Tuesday pancake race.
Breast of free-range chicken with potato pancake and tarragon, grilled fillets of Dover sole with a beurre blanc and braised pork cheeks with mashed potato were three of the nine main courses on offer. Dinner is more expensive.