Welcome to another week and we're a bit late this week as its been so manic, we are a bit behind so whilst we play catch up here at Cloud 9 Towers, we thought we celebrate Pancake Day with you instead....
Pancake Day has been celebrated by Britons for centuries. Also known also as Shrove Tuesday, its exact date changes every year, because it is dictated by when Easter falls. But it is always the day preceding Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), and always falls in February or March. This year, you'll need to get your pans ready for tomorrow, Tuesday 9 February.
So why Pancakes? Well traditionally, pancakes were eaten on this day to use up
foods like eggs and milk before the 40-day fast of Lent
began. But although its a Christian tradition, many also believe Pancake Day might originate in a pagan holiday, when
eating round pancakes symbolising the sun were a way of
celebrating the arrival of spring.
It's not very Spring like here to be honest, it's not stopped raining for days but we'll still be giving our flipping skills a try here, but just why do we flip pancakes and enjoy it so much?
As well as making and eating pancakes, we Brits love to hold pancake
races, where people run while flipping their pancakes in a pan. Legend
has it that the tradition was born in the 15th century when a
particularly disorganised woman in Buckinghamshire rushed to church to
confess her sins while mid-way through making pancakes. We hope she gave
one to the priest?!
So enjoy your pancakes and if you decide to try a creative spin on the usual flat round boring ones with a little lemon or sugar, you might decide to give these a try instead - with thanks to the very talented Jim at Jim's Pancakes for his amazing inspirational ideas and great photographs...
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