Shrovetide: the most interesting thing about pancakes
Damn has its own records... For example, in size.
The largest in the world the pancake weighed 3 tons, had 15 meters in diameter, and had two million calories! This record was set at Rochdale in 1994.
Biggest pancake breakfast worldwide annually held in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. The event is attended by hundreds of volunteers, and since 1999, over 71,233 servings have been served to over 40,000 people. If all these pancakes were stacked, it would be over 3.5 km.
World pancake tossing record Ralph Lau from Leipzig put it in the air - in two minutes he tossed a pancake 416 times! And Mike Kutsakra holds another pancake record - he ran a marathon, continually tossing a pancake, how much do you think? Within 3 hours, 2 minutes and 27 seconds!
Pancake Race settle in England. This happens on Sinful Tuesday, when a huge number of people compete in the race, tossing all the same pancakes in pans on the go. The first pancake race took place back in 1445 and is the oldest pancake festival ever.
The most expensive pancakes in the world
were prepared in the UK a few years ago. The cost of this dish was £ 144 ($ 198). It was lavishly flavored with aromatic natural vanilla pods, a rather expensive spice, and topped with a thin layer of edible 24-karat gold leaf. The luxury of this pancake dish was given by strawberries grown on ecologically clean soil, as well as jelly from Don Perignon champagne. The chef explained the essence of creating his masterpiece by the fact that even the simplest and most banal food can be a real treasure if you create an organic ensemble.
Interesting pancakes have both interesting traditions and customs. For instance, there is a tradition in France, the essence of which is that if you make a wish while turning the pancake, while holding the handle of the frying pan with one hand and a coin with the other, then the wish will come true.
In Russia, there was a custom to give a woman in labor a pancake.
According to legend, Maslenitsa was the daughter of Santa Claus and lived in the far North. The fragile girl Maslenitsa once met a man who saw her hiding behind huge snowdrifts. The man asked the girl to help people who were tired of the long winter - to cheer and warm them too. Shrovetide agreed and, turning into a healthy, ruddy woman, with dances, laughter, and pancakes made the whole human race forget about the winter bad weather.
No less interesting and origin of the name itself this amazing dish. The word "pancake" is a distorted "mlyn" derived from the verb "grind". "Melin", or "mlyn", meant a product made of grained, in other words - a flour product.
According to research by Russian historians, yeast pancake appeared somewhere at the turn of 1005-1006. Thus, in 2014, the Russian pancake is 1008 years old.
The forerunner of the modern pancake, oddly enough it may seem, was oatmeal jelly, which one day someone decided to heat it up on a fire. This man, apparently, gape and the thick jelly was fried, browned and so it turned out a ready-made pancake.
From time immemorial in Russia, pancakes were baked not only from oat flour, but also rye, wheat, buckwheat and buckwheat-wheat pancakes. In Russian home cooking, pancakes with baked goods, meat, onions, mushrooms, fish, eggs were very popular, and wild berries and cottage cheese were used as the filling.
Pancakes were served with butter, jam, sour cream, black and red caviar, lightly salted fish and chopped herring.
My favorites - with poppy seeds, nuts and raisins, poured with honey.
What kind of pancakes do you like? 
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About pancakes entered in the Guinness Book of Records.
Everyone in the biography has a personal record for the number of pancakes eaten. Such achievements are staged in our country every year during Shrovetide festivities, but, as a rule, the names of the champions are unknown to anyone - the heroes of the festive gluttony are modest, and they themselves rarely remember how many of these wonderful round crispy pancakes they ate this time.
But sometimes pancakes set records themselves. And even then, of course, these achievements do not go unnoticed - they are watched by specially trained people who officially register a variety of pancake records. We decided to tell you about them.
The biggest damn
According to an entry in the Guinness Book of Records, the largest pancake was baked in August 1994 in Manchester, England. To bake it, a special wooden mold was needed, which was assembled with the help of construction equipment. The diameter of a giant pancake made in England was 15 meters. At the same time, the thickness of the product was only two and a half centimeters, that is, it was a real thin ruddy pancake. Everything as we love!
The most flying pancake
In November 2010, New Yorker Dominic Cuzzacrea launched a pancake to a height of 9 meters and 47 centimeters. Having flown this distance, the pancake returned to the frying pan from which he actually started. It is noteworthy that the previous record for the height of the pancake flight was also set by Kuzzacrea - earlier he launched a circle of thin dough at 9 meters and 17 centimeters.
The most massive pancake flight
And here is the largest number of pancakes that simultaneously rose into the air and, which is important, - successfully landed - 46. That is the number of pancakes that were thrown from a pan to the ceiling by a New Yorker Ashrita Ferman and entice by his comrade Bipin Larkin. This record was set and recorded in September 2009.
Highest pancake slide
There is no doubt that any grandmother in our country could bake a pile of pancakes several meters high, but she has no chance of accomplishing such a feat - by the forces of numerous eaters, the pancake pile evaporates, not having time to grow even a few centimeters above the plate.
Therefore, the record for the height of the pancake slide had to be set far from Russian cuisines - in the Dutch amusement park "Efteling". There, in October 2014, a stack of pancakes with a height of 91.2 centimeters was baked. How many pancakes were needed for this record tower, the Guinness Book of Records, where this achievement is entered, unfortunately does not specify.
The pancake hour
But it is known how many pancakes it takes to bake in an hour to get into the record books - 1093. In the meantime, the current record holder, who baked 1092 pancakes in 60 minutes, is the American Ross McCurdy, who set his achievement in Washington state in the fall of 2013. Russian grandmothers have something to strive for on this Maslenitsa!
World records are set for brand promotion or for charity, and chefs are all the more ready to compete for leadership. They are ready to spend eternity in the kitchen to set the record and use only the best ingredients in huge quantities.
Most expensive burger
It would seem that the burger is a juicy meat cutlet, fresh vegetables and a soft bun, but the Fleur restaurant in Las Vegas has come up with a more unusual combination of ingredients. French chef Habert Keller has created the world's most expensive burger. Fleur Burger is Japanese beef, foie gras, cooked in black truffle sauce on a truffle brioche bun. The cost of the Fleur Burger is 5000 dollars v. The lucky ones who have tasted this burger claim that it is delicious. Is such an expensive pleasure really worth the money? In addition to the most expensive burger, French fries and a bottle of 1995 Chateau Petrus are served, and the wine alone costs $ 2,500.
Longest pizza
The birthplace of pizza, Italy, again surprised the whole world and established new record Guinness. More than 60 of the best pizza makers gathered at EXPO in Milan in 2015 to make the longest pizza in the world. For the preparation of pizza, only Italian products were used: 1.5 tons of mozzarella cheese, two tons of tomato sauce, 150 liters of olive oil. The weight of the dough alone was 1.7 tons. The masters spent more than 18 hours preparing the pizza and used five ovens. The weight of the longest pizza in the world was 5 tons, and the length was 1600 meters. 35 thousand people got the opportunity to try pizza for free, and 300 meters of pizza were donated to charitable organizations.
Highest stack of pancakes
In 2016, the Guinness World Record was broken for the tallest stack of pancakes. The past record, set by chefs from the Netherlands, was broken by chefs at the Newark Recreation Center in the UK. They baked a total of 213 pancakes and made a 101.8 centimeter stack. For the preparation of pancakes, 13 bags of flour, 360 eggs and 13 liters of milk were used. After long hours of hard work, the pancake stack lasted 5 seconds, which was enough to set the Guinness World Record. Record-breaking pancakes with various fillings were distributed to all guests of the Recreation Center. Chefs from Japan, Holland and the USA tried to break the record, but it still remains with British chefs.
The largest sushi mosaic
The record for the largest land mosaic was set in Norway. In honor of the centenary of the existence of the local football club, the sushi mosaic was assembled on football stadium... The size of the mosaic was 56.5 square meters, and the preparation took 800 kilograms of salmon, 400 kilograms of rice, about 200 liters of rice vinegar, 480 kilograms of cucumbers and 10 kilograms of green onions. A true work of art in groceries, it was created by Norwegian sushi masters. After confirming the record, sushi was distributed to everyone who came to the football game.
Heaviest Chocolate Bar
In 2011, the British chocolate factory "Thorntons" for the centenary of the company's foundation broke what is perhaps the most delicious world record for many. The chocolate factory has prepared the heaviest chocolate bar in the world. The weight of the heaviest bar was 5793 kilograms, and the size was 4 by 4 meters. It took a team of 50 people 10 hours to pour the chocolate into the mold, and then it took three days to solidify. The chocolate bar was offered for tasting to everyone at the Chocolate Week, and then it was smashed into pieces and sold in Thorntons stores.
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Pancakes are different: unleavened and custard, buckwheat and wheat, and sometimes even record ones. In the village. Stanichno-Luganskoye, during the festivities at the Maslenitsa festival, a new pancake record was set - the villagers built the highest pyramid of pancakes in the history of the country. 20 Luhansk chefs managed not only to bake a whole bunch of pancakes in 15 hours, but also to put them in a 3m 13cm high pile! Each new pancake was strung on a metal pin. This required active movement exercises 6 people. The maximum diameter of pancakes is 30 cm. Moreover, even the first pancake was not lumpy! The height of the grandiose structure could have been even greater, but the pancakes began to sag under their own weight. Therefore, we decided that the main thing is to stop on time.
It took 200 kg of flour, 350 eggs and almost 160 liters of milk to bake pancakes for the record pyramid. After the new record was declared valid, the guests of the holiday ate pancakes with great pleasure.
The venue for the celebration was not chosen by chance. Shrovetide for Stanitsa Luganskaya - the only Don village in Ukraine - is a special holiday. The original Cossacks put the farewell to winter on a par with the great Orthodox holidays. Luhansk residents dedicated their record to the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Luhansk region and the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Stanichno-Luhansk region. The leaders of the Stanichno-Luhansk region, the chairman of the Stanichno-Luhansk regional public organization "Young Regions", the director of the regional communal enterprise "Sport for All" Oleg Akimov, as well as the honored guests present at the celebration - People's Deputy of Ukraine Alexander Efremov, head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Volodymyr Pristyuk and Deputy Chairman of the Luhansk Regional Council Yuriy Khunov received commemorative certificates of the record.