We can't believe it's nearly Pancake Day!
Club 3000 • Feb 15, 2023
Shrove Tuesday falls on 21st February this year, and to say we as a Nation enjoy pancakes is quite the understatement!!
But why are pancakes associated with Shrove Tuesday?
We don't need an excuse to enjoy pancakes any time of the year, but Shrove Tuesday is a particularly good reason to indulge. Here's a few facts about Shrove Tuesday:
Why Does The Date Change Each Year?
Shrove Tuesday is determined by the date of Easter Sunday and will always fall exactly 47 days before.
Easter Sunday is calculated by the first full moon that follows the Spring Equinox in March. Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday which is the beginning of Lent.
Why Pancakes?
Lent is traditionally a time when you give something up and Shrove Tuesday was an old English custom of using up leftover fattening ingredients in the house before Lent. Back then, the most common ingredients that all folks tended to have in were eggs and milk, and mixing them with flour was the perfect way of using them up and avoid waste.
Pancake Races & Flipping Pancakes
The famous Pancake Race is said to have originated in 1445, when a woman in Buckinghamshire is said to have been caught out by the sound of church bells before she’d finished making a pancake.
Her solution, was to sprint from her home to her local church service still carrying her frying pan, flipping the pancake to prevent it burning.
Olney, where the story is based, still holds a famous annual race, with contestants competing over a 415 yard course, wearing an apron in honour of the founder.
There are Pagan and Egyptian Connections
In pre-Christianity, the pancake marked the start of spring, the colour, shape, even the heat, of the pancake symbolised the sun. ‘Lent’ comes from ‘Lencten’ which is an old English word meaning ‘lengthening’ referring to the lengthening days of spring.
As for the forty-day fast, there is no specific directive in the bible to fast for forty days, so it would seem that ‘forty’ has been appropriated from the forty days/nights Jesus spent fasting in the wilderness. The same period of the time ancient Egyptians fasted in honour of Osiris, the god of fertility and nature, thousands of years earlier.
All of the above is a mix of facts and semantics, the good thing is that on Shrove Tuesday we eat pancakes.
The only real question is, how do eat yours?
All our clubs serve hot and cold food, so why not visit on Shrove Tuesday for a pancakes and a game of bingo
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