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For the flip side of Shrove Tuesday read on...

SHROVE TUESDAY, PANCAKE DAY

This year (2005) it is on Tuesday, February 8th.

Future years as follows:

 
2006 - February 28 2007 - February 20 2008 - February 5 2009 - February 24
2010 - February 16

2011 - March 8

 2012 - February 21 2013 - February 12

 

Shrove Tuesday, is traditionally a day for some merry-making - a last 'fling' before the long fast. It is best remembered today with making pancakes. (cannot wait *grin*). For most people it is just pancake day and nothing more, But the custom arose through the need to use up food items, which were forbidden during Lent.

Pancakes were, and still are believed to be of good luck in many areas of the world as they contained many herbs and food items associated with the prosperity and longevity.

Made from batter and fried, in fat, the ingredients symbolise four crucial points of significance at this time of year:

Eggs ~ Creation
Flour ~ The staff of life
Salt ~ Wholesomeness
Milk ~ Purity

The word 'Shrove' refers to the practice of confessing of sins, then afterwards the fast of Lent could be considered a penance of faults committed.

Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, was a solemn occasion, deriving its name from the ancient practice of blessing of the ashes, the priest using the occasion to remind his congregation that they too must reurn to ashes.

Pancake races and tossing the pancakes are two traditions that have stayed with us. Women race with pancakes in frying-pans, tossing them as they run. This was one of many merry-making games played at this time.

OLD FASHIONED RHYMES SUNG ON PANCAKE DAY.

As with a lot of festivals, Shrove Tuesday was used as an excuse for processions around the village, demanding alms from the better-off. In more recent times, the processions were confined mainly to children. In many districts of England the rhymes chanted on these occasions have been preserved, and most of them refer to food.

Two from Wiltshire.

A-shrovin', a-shrovin',
i be come a-shrovin',
a piece of bread, a piece of cheese,
A bit of your fat bacaon,
Or a dish of dough-nuts,
All of your own makin'!

A-shrovin', a-shrovin',
Nice meat in a pie,
my mouth is very dry.

From Warminster.

Dame, is your pan hot?
Lard and corn is dear;
I've come a-shovin',
Tis but once a year.
So up to the flitch
and cut a gurt stitch;
If your hens don't lay,
I'll steal your cock away
Afore next Shrove Tuesday.

From West Somerset.

Tippety-Tippety-tin;
Give me a pancake and I'll come in.
Tippety-tippety-toe,
Give me a pancake and then I'll go.

Cornish version.

Nicky, nicky, nan,
Give me a pancake and then I'll be gone.
But if you give me none,
I'll throw a great stone
And down your door shall come.

(Extracts from "A Calendar of Country Customs")

One of many TRADITIONAL BASIC PANCAKE Recipe.

So toss aside those winter blues and get cooking
and have a pancake party :-))

INGREDIENTS

1/2 Ib (220g) self raising flour
1 pint (500 ml)milk
2 eggs
pinch salt
1 1/2 oz (40 g) lard
1 lemon
sugar for sprinkling

METHOD

Sieve the flour and salt into a basin, making a well in the centre. Break the eggs one at a time and pour into the well. Gradually beat the eggs and flour together, adding the milk little by little until creamy consisitency has been reached. Beat the batter for a few minutes to aerate it, and leave to stand for an hour or so if possible.

Heat the frying pan or griddle with a little lard and pour enough batter to cover the area needed. Cook until the top is dry, and then either toss or turn the pancake and cook the other side until brown.

Turn out onto a greaseproof paper, sprinkle with sugar and lemon juice as desired and roll up before serving.

PANCAKE SONG

Mix a pancake,
Stir a pancake,
Pop it in the pan.
Fry the pancake,
Toss the pancake,
Catch it if you can.

~Christina Rossetti~

PANCAKE DAY CRAFTS

For a art project, have the children cut a pancake out of brown paper, then use a hole punch to punch blueberries out of blue paper. The children glue the berries onto the pancake in the shape of their first initial. Follow this by making real pancakes. Using an old squirt bottle filled with pancake batter, write and cook pancakes in the shape of their initials. by Cheryl Dop

Whilst making pancakes...stop frequently to discuss where wheat grows, how to grind wheat into flour, how to churn milk into butter, etc. Over the next week, grind wheat, make butter, and do all the other things needed to make pancakes. If someone has chickens at home, try to take a quick trip to his/her house and gather an egg or two for the pancakes. by Sharon Hanson

PANCAKE POEM

Who wants a pancake,
Sweet and piping hot?
Good little Grace looks up and says,
"I'll take the one on top."
Who else wants a pancake,
Fresh off the griddle?
Terrible Teresa smiles and says,
"I'll take the one in the middle."

~Shel Siverstien~

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