Pancake-maker

&hellip the great Condé took great credit to himself for being an excellent pancake-maker

Whereupon the pancake-maker showed how he could turn them. He tossed a pancake high in the air and deftly caught it in the pan.

&hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels.