Home » Traditional British Flapjacks Traditional British Flapjacks October 29, 2020This post contains affiliate links.Traditional British Flapjacks the way you know and love them!  Made with oats, butter, sugar and golden syrup, these oat bars are baked until lightly browned with a deliciously deep caramelized flavor! I grew up enjoying flapjacks in England and have sampled many a flapjack from many a bakery.  Whether you’ve had them many times before or are a newcomer, get ready to fall in love with one of the UK’s most treasured and traditional baked treats! What are Flapjacks? While the term flapjack refers to a pancake in the United States and Canada, it originated in the UK where it refers to a baked bar prepared from oats, butter, golden syrup and sugar that is formed into a large, flat rectangle, baked and then cut into small rectangles.Dating back to at least the early 1600’s in England, the term “flap” refers to a flat cake while “Jack” refers to an ordinary, or common, man (like “Joe” today in the U.S.).  In other words, this centuries-old pastry was of the common folk; unadorned with simple, accessible ingredients.One of the earliest mentions of the flapjack in print appears in Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre” (1607) where the fisherman says to Pericles: “Come, thou shalt go home, and we’ll have flesh for holidays, fish for fasting-days, and moreo’er puddings and flap-jacks, and thou shalt be welcome.” While histori

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