Has The Ancient Greeks Made Pancake The Perfect Family Of Pancakes?

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A pancake is a flat cake, often thin, and round, prepared from a starch-based batter that may also contain eggs, milk and butter and fried on both sides in a pan, often with oil or butter. The Ancient Greeks made pancakes called tagenias (τηγανίτης) meaning "frying pan". The earliest attested references on tagenias (pancakes) are in the poems of the fifth century B.C. poets Cratinus and Magnes. Tagenites were made with wheat flour, olive oil, honey, and curdled milk, and were served for breakfast. Romans eat sweet and savoury dishes of a meal called Alita Dolcia made from milk, flour, eggs and spices. The defining characteristic of the entire vast family of pancakes, however—from crepe to griddlecake, blini, bannock, and beyond—is flatness.