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As per an article published in 2018, analyses of starch grains on 30,000-year-old grinding tools suggest that Stone Age cooks were making flour out of cattails and ferns—which, researchers guess, was likely mixed with water and baked on a hot, possibly greased, rock. The result may have been more akin to hardtack than the modern crepe, hotcake, or flapjack, but the idea was the same: a flat cake, made from batter and fried. . . The ancient Greeks and Romans ate pancakes, sweetened with honey; the Elizabethans ate them flavoured with spices, rosewater, sherry, and apples. They were traditionally eaten in quantity on Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day, a day of feasting and partying before the beginning of Lent. . . Pancakes were an excellent way to use up stores of about-to-be-forbidden perishables like eggs, milk, and butter. . . Whatever the age of the pancake, it’s an ancient form of food. . . But then, came #TikTok Generation around 2016 and 43% Indians apparently can now be found on this byte size application. This app did not just reduce the content size but also one tiktoker reduced the pancake size and now popularly known as #PancakeCereal. But, people have been making these tiny pancakes since forever, they just did not know the name, like always called them small pancakes, now I know the "Real name". . . #foodandstreets #pancakes #pancake #food #butter #sweet #Sugar #breakfast #breakfastideas #Coffee #sweettooth #breakfastclub #Story #History #foodporn #foodphotography #lockdown2020 #Cooking #ragi #foodstagram #foodgram #tuesday

"It is an orchard of delights, with all the sweetness of spices." This is how paradise is described in the Cursor Mundi, a Northumbrian poem written in ca.I325. Bakers love the smell of freshly baked bread, and a cook loves the aroma of freshly roasted and pounded spices. . . Today while I was interacting with @rushinamg on #instagramlive and talking about spices that we Bihar has, seasonings that I have in my kitchen and a few new spices that are now a part of my kitchen, I was thinking of everyone who loves freshly roasted and pounded spice mixes. A basic garam masala is different in every state and households, with various ingredients based on climate and eating habits. One can write and talk about spices, and yet it won't be enough. Just one conversation, one book, one show, one narrative won't do justice to this beautiful world of spices. . . In the picture, you'll find my recipe of Qeema Masala which can be used as the base, and top it up with onion, garlic, curd, and you are good to go. You can use this mix also to put in vegetarian dishes like gobhi qeema (recipe is on my feed). . . Two of my favourite books to explore more on spices are The Flavour of Spice by @marryam (@hachette_india) and Spices by Jack Turner (@vintagebooks) . . #foodandstreets #spice #spices #masala #qeema #homemade #eatlocal #Easyrecipe #Mughlai #garammasala #qeemamasala #regional #Local #fivespice #Mix #homemadefood #IndianFood #Benifits #blackpepper #pepper #chilli #Hot #Story #recipes #recipe #books #bookstagram

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