Culinary

                                    

Pancakes with Honey and Sesame Seeds

Reffered to as Teganitai.

Ingredients:

-4 oz Flour

-8 Fl oz Water

-2 Tablespoons Clear Honey

-Oil for Frying

-1 Tablespoon Toasted Sesame Seeds




The added honey and sesame seeds is something not seen much in our culture today. It is a continual suprise how little food changes from one millennium to the next. The great physician Galen, a tireless observer of details of food and drink, gives a desription so serious and painstaking that we smile to imagine him making notes as he watched a cook turning pancakes. It is hard to remember htat he is writing 1800 years ago. What is more, the dish was already 800 years old. The early Greek poet Hipponax had

written of pancakes 'drugged with sesame seeds'. Comedy gluttons on the

Athenian stage had spoken of 'mist rising at dewy daybreak from warm

pancakes' and of honey poured over them as they sizzle: a breakfast meal,

no doubt, and one that was possibly sold on the streets of ancient Athens.