English > pancake: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle. |
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| Synonyms | battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake, hot cake |
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| Narrower | blini, bliny | Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast |
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| blintz, blintze | (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked |
| buckwheat cake | A pancake made with buckwheat flour |
| buttermilk pancake | A pancake made with buttermilk |
| crape, crepe, French pancake | small very thin pancake |
| pfannkuchen, german pancake | puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture / mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce |
| potato pancake, latke | made of grated potato and egg with a little flour |
| tortilla | Thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour |
| Broader | cake | baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat |
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| Spanish | crepe, crep, filoa, hojuela, pancake, panqueca, panqueque, torta, tortilla, tortita |
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| Catalan | coca, crep, crespell, tortita |
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