This is just plain silly!

[Killearn Kitties]

I thought a small pancake was a "Silver Dollar"? PAN (fry it in the pan) CAKE (puffs up a wee bit).

Well it's hardly likely to be called a "silver dollar" here, is it? But yes, that would be the way you make them. In a heavy based pan, or more particularly, "a gridle". I think Gini mentioned gridle cakes before, but "gridle cakes" aren't pancakes, "gridle cakes" are scones.

dear oh dear.. this is as confuzzled as boiling an egg

I have never exploded a pancake in my life. Have you? Or Sara?