2006-08-30 23:12:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
In the UK, a flapjack is a tray bake (or bar cookie) made from rolled oats, fat (typically butter), brown sugar and usually Golden syrup or honey. As well as being baked at home, they are widely available in shops, ready-packaged, often with extra ingredients such as chocolate, dried fruit, nuts, and toffee pieces or coatings, either as individual servings or full unsliced trayfuls. Some common companies that produce flapjacks are McVities, The Fabulous Bakin' Boys, and Eat Natural. They are usually an alternative to a biscuit (US: Cookie) or cake, and textures range from soft and moist to dry and crisp.
See also: Granola
In North America, flapjack is another term for a pancake, made using baking powder which causes the pancake to rise. It is also a reference to a professional wrestling throw.
A flapjack can also be a kind of hydraulic machine.
2006-08-30 23:16:13 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mcvities Flapjack
2016-11-07 08:32:38 · answer #2 · answered by nedeau 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An interesting question, since my use of the word has always been for a kind of biscuit (or cookie) made of oatmeal and (sometimes) fruit with butter and sugar.
In the States, I understand, it can refer to a kind of pancake which is flipped (or flapped) over to cook on the other side. A 'jack' is sometimes used to mean 'just any old thing', so one putative derivation is 'a thing that is flipped over'.
I think I can see why my oatcake kind of thing (which is baked in a tray in the oven) might be called a flapjack, if it was once a similar kind of thing but baked on a griddle, as Welsh cakes are.
2006-08-30 23:26:01 · answer #3 · answered by Owlwings 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This baker named jack was well known for geting in a flap (panic) about his cakes not turning out correctly untill one day a new cake he was working on turned out really well and all the towns people enjoyed it so much they called it a flap jack. :-)
2006-09-02 09:18:11 · answer #4 · answered by Tracker 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
try this for some info on the subject....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapjack
2006-08-30 23:16:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which kind? British or USA versions?
2006-08-30 23:19:05 · answer #6 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i really dont no the actual thing hasent got anything to do with the name!
2006-08-30 23:54:51 · answer #7 · answered by twinkle star 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know i call them pancakes
2006-09-03 16:27:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋