Anecdotes of my passing...

Have you ever heard of a Pancake Day? I have not...but it's always fantastic to learn something new like this. I've never had so much pancakes with such careless abandon and such fun in making them. :)

Info sourced directly from here

Origins

Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent - the 40 days leading up to Easter - was traditionally a time of fasting and on Shrove Tuesday Christians went to confession and were "shriven" (absolved from their sins). It was the last opportunity to use eggs and fats before embarking on the Lenten fast and pancakes are the perfect way of using up these ingredients.

Wikipedia

The reason that pancakes are associated with the day preceding is that the 40 days of Lent form a period of liturgical fasting, during which only the plainest foodstuffs may be eaten. Therefore, rich ingredients such as eggs, milk, and sugar are disposed of immediately prior to the commencement of the fast. Pancakes and doughnuts were therefore an efficient way of using up these perishable goods, besides providing a minor celebratory feast prior to the fast itself .

The word shrove is a past tense of the English verb "shrive," which means to obtain absolution for one's sins by confessing and doing penance. Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the shriving that Anglo-Saxon Christians were expected to receive immediately before Lent.

I enjoyed it a lot. Pancakes with jam, honey, Nutella, sugar..plain.. To my housemates, you guys rock! :)



The raw ingredients


The batter..


Mr. Fast Hands working his magic :) That would be Jon.



The leftover pancakes...we were quite full after it all.


Pancakes for another day...