The earliest records of pancakes and pancake tossing appeared ... In Scotland, special oatcakes called Bannocks were made using oatmeal, eggs, and salt and cooked on a griddle.

Conveniently, pancakes - and bannocks - were the ideal dishes to utilise these ingredients. For those unfamiliar, a bannock is a type of flatbread or quick bread made from flour. Typically round ...

The song 'Bannocks o' bear-meal' first appeared in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum in 1796. While these verses exist in Burns's holograph, it is likely that they are traditional and were ...