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 ...

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.