Comment by riffraff

> This is not a pancake in the modern sense, but it is a batter cooked on a flat hot surface, which is the definition of one.

Are you sure it was a batter and not a dough? That would make it an archaic flatbread rather than pancake :)

(tho I guess cattails have no gluten to make kneading possible, but there are other flatbreads made of roots)