Yesterday was Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day. It's traditional in this house to have pancakes all day! Yep, breakfast, lunch and dinner (and dessert if there are enough left).
So breakfast was English style pancakes with lemon and lime juice and caster sugar - yum.
Terri came over late morning and then made American style pancakes which Callum and herself had with bacon and maple syrup:
Then dinner was cheese and ham English pancake wraps.
We didn't just eat all day. Callum did another book review and we went to Aldi to get the ingredients for today's (Wednesday) cooking. He's making pepperoni and olive pizza today.
He also did some research on what Shrove Tuesday means and printed off some info and a list of dates for future years. Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day, is the day preceding Ash Wednesday which is the first day of Lent. Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the custom for Christians to be "shriven". Pancakes are associated with the day because they were a way of using up rich foods such as eggs, milk and sugar before the fasting season of Lent, where all foods that give 'pleasure' are not eaten.
The custom of 'pancake races' which are still held in England is said to have originated from the story of a housewife in Olney, Buckinghamshire, who was so busy making pancakes that she forgot the time until she heard the church bells ringing for service. She, apparently, raced out of the house to church still carrying her frying pan and pancake. Pancake races are traditionally run by woman, although if men want to join in they can as long as they dress up in an apron and scarf. The most famous race is held in Olney and is run over 415 yards. The rules are that the contestants must toss their pancake both at the start and the finish of the race. The race is then finished with a church service.
The date of Shrove Tuesday changes each year as it is connected with the dates of Easter.
Anyway, that's enough for the moment.
Cya
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