Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)

[Perdita]

Shrove Tuesday is celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday and is therefore the final day before the commencement of Lent, a Christian festival leading up to Easter Sunday (Easter Day). Lent is a time of abstinence, of giving things up. So Shrove Tuesday is the last chance to indulge yourself, and to use up the foods that aren't allowed in Lent. Pancakes are eaten on this day because they contain fat, butter and eggs which were forbidden during Lent.

In 2009 Pancake Day will be on 24 February.

Any of you going to eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday?

[lizann]

I'm hungry for pancakes now :D

[Trinity]

Definitely, although I will not be giving anything else up afterwards, lol

My kids love pancakes - I can feel pancakes with banana and butterscotch sauce coming on.....

[di marco]

i love pancakes! :D made them for myself for the first time last year and they turned out quite well! dunno if ill have chance to have them on the tuesday though, so might have to have them wednesday instead!

[Perdita]

i love pancakes! :D made them for myself for the first time last year and they turned out quite well! dunno if ill have chance to have them on the tuesday though, so might have to have them wednesday instead!

I will not tell anybody if you won't :ninja: :lol:

[Tannie]

Yess! But my mum might not let me loose in the kitchen lmao! so i might go to my gran's and get Lucy to come make them with me:Dx Lmoa! but yeah i love pancakes; haven't had any since last year :(.

[di marco]

i love pancakes! :D made them for myself for the first time last year and they turned out quite well! dunno if ill have chance to have them on the tuesday though, so might have to have them wednesday instead!

I will not tell anybody if you won't :ninja: :lol:

haha! i dont care anyway, i never give anything up for lent! its just a good excuse to eat pancakes! :D

[Chloe O'brien]

I'm being a cheat this year, was in Asda the other day and I seen this bottle of ready pancake mix for £1 all you do is add milk. So I bought two bottles. Going to make some pancakes at the weekend to see what they are like.

[StarsOfCCTV]

I might make my american stylee pancakes that I got from a recipe. Haven't made those in about a year! They taste lovely though. Really thick spongey pancakes...Yummm :wub: :p

[Kirsty :]]

Yayyyyy! I love pancake day! My Nan makes the nicest pancakes ever :D
Then I will do my whole giving up crisps and chocolate and recently added fizzy drinks palava

[di marco]

I'm being a cheat this year, was in Asda the other day and I seen this bottle of ready pancake mix for £1 all you do is add milk. So I bought two bottles. Going to make some pancakes at the weekend to see what they are like.

my mum normally makes the pancake mix herself but last year i bought ready made pancake mix, although this year i might try making it myself cos there was way too much of it last year and i was having pancakes for 3 days in a row to use it all up lol!

[Chloe O'brien]

The bottle of pancake mix from Asda only makes 6 to 8 pancakes.

[Abbie]

:eek: I forgot about this, mmmmm pancakes :p

[Layne]

I LOVE pancakes :D Cream, chocolate sauce and syrup ...yummmmy :wub:

[di marco]

The bottle of pancake mix from Asda only makes 6 to 8 pancakes.

oh right, the one i got from sainsburys made loads! i found a simple recipe how to make them so i think ill give it a go!

[Emmie]

In my house we have pancakes for breakfast, with like tradition stuff, lemon n sugar then for lunch, we have pancakes, with bacon and beans then for dinner we have pancakes with sausage, ham and beans lol then for pudding we have chocolate pancakes with icecream and choc sause and chips lol, i've had that every year since i can remember!

[di marco]

wow you have loads of pancakes! we normally have a savory pancake for our dinner with veg and cheese in and stuff then we have a sweet pancake for dessert with fruit or icecream or syrup or sugar and lemon or anything thats in the house!

[Kim]

I have a TD day on the 23rd so I can go to Sainsbury's with my mum and make her buy loads of stuff to make them with :) She never buys enough of it :p

[di marco]

i had my pancakes today, they were yummy! :D though on one of them i had loads of sugar and golden syrup and i could feel my teeth rotting as i was eating it lol!

[Abbie]

I think Ive gone off pancakes