Recipes for success: how to eat pancakes It is Pancake Day today, which presents us with a problem: how to tackle a food that we hardly ever eat. But, no fear, How to eat is here, with a special Shrove Tuesday primer on all the crucial questions that a pancake can provoke. Crêpe or thick breakfast pancakes? Sweet or savoury? Jif or lemon juice? And why jam beats big old chunks of fruit, every ... single ... time A stack of American pancakes with maple syrup. Photograph: Erin Slonaker/Getty Images/Flickr Open Tony Naylor Tue 17 Feb 2015 09.52 GMT First published on Tue 17 Feb 2015 09.32 GMT 305 Break out the frying pan Britain and pour yourself a Gaviscon because, in this lavishly illustrated, commemorative, cut-out-and-keep special, How To Eat is tossing-up pancakes. The pancake is a peculiar hinterland food. It is utterly familiar, yet something most of us only eat on Shrove Tuesday. Consequently, while we all think we know what fantastic pancakes are, in reality the pancake remains