In United State it is thin and crispy but slightly chewy pancake. Flapjack is eaten cold, either with syrup or jam or on its own.
Flapjack appeared early in the seventeenth century, flap being a variant of flip, and jack being a word that meant food in some British dialects.
In North America pancake flapjack are made with baking powder so that the batter is light and fluffy.
It was not until 1935, the term was used in the United Kingdom to mean an oatmeal bar baked with butter brown sugar, and corn syrup.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary flapjack used also to be a sort of apple tart or apple turnover (apple-jack in eastern England).
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