Also known as crêpes. Thin, flat cakes made by shallow frying on both sides a thin layer of batter of flour, milk and eggs. Can be sweet or savoury, served by themselves or used to wrap other ingredients.

Pancakes are thin cakes made from a batter of milk...

Circular floating slabs of ice when the sea begins to freeze in autumn, soon to merge into sea-ice. Right: Sea ice forming pancakes.

Isolated, roughly circular patches of oil ranging in size from a few feet across to hundreds of yards (or meters) in diameter. Sheen may or may not also be present.