Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Pancake Tuesday

Pancake Tuesday is a  holiday and is a day where people gather with friends and family and have a feast of pancakes. On this day you make pancakes of all sorts and there also is a long history of this special day. In the middle ages it was called Shrove Tuesday.The name Shrove comes from the old word "shrive" which means to confess. On Shrove Tuesday, in the Middle Ages, people used to confess their sins so that they were forgiven before the season of Lent began.

Pancake Day celebrates the start of the Christian celebration of Lent where Christians give up something for 40 days to empathize with Jesus Christ when he was sent into the wilderness for 40 days and nights and tempted by the Devil. The forty days now leads up to the celebration of Easter.

During Lent people would fast, so the day before, Shrove Tuesday, households would use up food items in the home such as sugar, butter, milk and eggs. Pancakes were easily made from these ingredients and provided needed nutrients before the fasting period. Eggs would not be eaten thereafter until Easter.!Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at Easter Sunday, a period of forty days. 
So what is a pancake? A pancake is a thin, flat cake, made of batter and fried in a pan.You mix flour, egg and milk and vanilla in a bowl and this makes a batter. You then pour some in a frying pan on low heat and flip it when the bottom is solid.








The pancakes were great!

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