What is Pancake Day?
Pancake Day (also called Shrove Tuesday) is the last day before the period which Christians call Lent (or the first Tuesday after Carnival.) On this day people in Britain traditionally eat pancakes.
Why do they eat Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday?
Lent is a time of abstinence. So Shrove Tuesday is the last opportunity to eat what you really enjoy and to finish the food that you can’t eat at Lent. People eat Pancakes on this day because they contain fat, butter and eggs which were forbidden during Lent.
When is Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)?
Shrove Tuesday is always 47 days before Easter Sunday so the date varies from year to year.
| In 2013 Pancake Day is on 12 February |
What is an English Pancake?
A pancake is a thin, flat cake, made of flour, milk and eggs and fried in a pan. It is traditional to eat the pancakes with lemon and sugar – mmmmmm!
(adapted from woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk)
Watch this video to find out how to make pancakes.
Hi Nuria.
ReplyDeleteIn Novelda we have the day of de coca. Similar a Pancake Day.
The first Thuesday after Carnival we eat "coca" made whit flour, pork lard and sugar.
It's really delicius.