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    35 days ago

    Well, I’d consider Dutch culture to be western as well lol. Dutch pancakes are there own thing (not to be confused with a ‘Dutch Pancake’ in America, which is another different thing

    We call the thicker, smaller pancakes ‘american’ pancakes.

    Dutch pancakes (Pannenkoeken) are thinner and bigger in diameter. More like a crêpe. Though crêpes are thinner again.

    The american ‘Dutch Pancake’ is a very fluffy egg pancake baked in a pan. (Also called a German Pancake or Dutch Baby Pancake) (there’s not much Dutch about it, because it originated in the US from someone of German descent)

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      145 days ago

      To illustrate it some more with images:

      American Pancakes:

      Pannenkoeken:

      Crêpes:

      ‘Dutch/German’ Pancake:

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        35 days ago

        Thanks for the effort posts, now I’m hungry…

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          45 days ago

          All of them are super easy recipes! Though if you’re in America I would advise against making the German Pancake at the moment, because you need a lot of eggs for that one.

          • Sixty
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            35 days ago

            I’m Canadian so that’s not our problem :)

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      14 days ago

      Similarly, the people called ‘Pennsylvania Dutch’ in the US do not have Dutch ancestry for the most part. They were German and referred to their homeland as Deutschland, locals anglicized it to Dutchland, hence ‘Dutch’.

      In our next class, we will discover the interesting history of the Jerusalem Artichoke…

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      5 days ago

      A UK pancake is very much that same large like a crepe but more substantial as well. Enjoyed almost exclusively on pancake day with sugar and lemon (we did blood orange juice because fancy).

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        25 days ago

        Came back from NL recently, and their pancakes seem the same as ours (UK). My mother quite enjoyed them as they were familiar.