John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021) • Hacker News Board

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #9

guerrilla wrote: post #5

Locke is a bit early for this, but if you like this kind of thing, then you'll love Townsends' channel about 18th century living, focused on cooking.[1] Seriously, they have over 18 seasons worth of "18th Century Cooking"[2] 1. https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson 2. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4e4wpjna1vx3DFU7r7gj...

Here is Tasting History's Pancake episode, from the same period as Locke. It appears to be similar, using cream and nutmeg, and Max whips the egg and cream for a while to add air: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD3WKbXhm6M

English Heritage also does a series on Victorian-era cooking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvpD-fy2c0

Re: John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)

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Post by bobthepanda » Sun, Jan 30, 2022, 3:22 AM UTC

mmcgaha wrote: post #6

Looks more like a crepe than a pancake.

That would essentially be the difference, yes.

Crepes are mostly the same general idea as pancakes without raising agents; this recipe doesn't contain baking powder because it hadn't been invented yet.

Food evolution is quite interesting. Most recipes we consider traditional standardized maybe 50-100 years ago. A pretty good example of how far a recipe can evolve is how mincemeat pies evolved from containing mostly meat, some fruit, and spices in the 11th century, to the modern incarnation which has no meat and is just fruit and spices.