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General pancakes would not have an ethnicity but those that are strongly linked to the USA e.g. flapjacks, griddle cakes, hotcakes, johnny/jonny cakes, Dutch babies/German pancakes should be North American.

veronicafrance - the delay is that we don't have a large staff and we are spread pretty thin.  The new bookmarklet feature has required quite a bit of feedback to members on what is required.  In the same way member indexing of books requires a lot of feedback in order to keep up our data quality.  Once a member has completed 4 books or so and has absorbed all the EYB indexing rules we will not be proofreading, just adding new ingredients and responding to questions, so the approvals will be a lot faster.  We are working our way through the completed books as fast as we can so you will see yours go up eventually.

Thanks for your understanding.  The biggest help would be if member indexers read through the Indexing manual before they start indexing.  I know it is tedious to read instructions and many people prefer to avoid them, but it does make the indexing process so much longer when we have to compose lengthy emails back to the indexer with all the mistakes they made.  We're not doing it to make them feel bad, but to ensure those mistakes don't get repeated in the next book (and so our proofreading job becomes much faster).

Recipe types seem to be particularly problematic and they really don't need to be.  We recommend having the Recipe types list open in a separate tab when indexing.  Then if you aren't sure what Recipe type a dish is, search the list by doing CTRL F - we have listed most dishes under each Recipe type, and we also identify what course it should be and whether it should be listed as Vegetarian/Vegan. 

Another of the time-consuming mistakes made by new indexers is assuming an ingredient isn't listed if they don't find it immediately and then listing it as a new ingredient.  With 14,500 ingredients in our database you can assume that any common ingredient is listed.  If you don't find what you are looking for, try a variation of the words (add or remove a hyphen, try a spelling variation) and also check the Indexing manual for Ingredients which explains why some ingredients are listed the way they are.  For instance, cinnamon would never be required as a new ingredient - it is listed as ground cinnamon and cinnamon sticks.  And cream of tartar is not listed as it is a store-cupboard ingredient that is never required.

It should get easier as the keen member indexers who have done several books each are now trusted to index without proofreading.  So those books can go up quickly which gives us more time to concentrate on the less experienced indexers.

I was unable to locate marscapone cheese in the ingredient list when entering a personal recipe -- am I spelling it wrong, or is it not on the list?

Excellent site -- keep up the good work!!

Thanks -- should have looked it up.

There are quite a few options on how we could change search results so you can jump ahead but according to our developers they all slow down the loading of search results.  When we first launched EYB we had pages and the loading was painfully slow.  The current system of scrolling results is much faster for loading but obviously doesn't allow you to jump ahead.  One option is to minimize the details on the page so there are more results per page and you can move through faster.  If you minimize the info to the minimum using the Collapse/Expand slider you get 200 results per page.

But as I said, we are considering ways to improve searching for recipes.