Recipe: Delicious Pancake day!

Pancake day!. Pancake Day is also known around the world as Shrove Tuesday. In the Christian faith Pancake Day is sometimes referred to as Pancake Tuesday, and Fat Tuesday. Butter your frying pans, as Pancake Day is finally upon us.

It's Shrove Tuesday but what's with the pancakes, why the word "shrove" and what is Ash Wednesday? It all relates to the Christian festival of Lent. Pancake Day - AKA Shrove Tuesday - is the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of Why does the date of Pancake Day change every year? You can have Pancake day! using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pancake day!

1. You need 30 g of unsalted butter (melted) plus more for oiling pan.
2. It's 1 of egg.
3. It's 325 ml of milk.
4. Prepare 150 g of plain flour.

Shrove Tuesday always falls on the seventh. In fact, it may be the oldest breakfast food in. Thank you for joining us on National Pancake Day®! Important announcement: It is pancake day!

Pancake day! step by step

1. Butter a 20cm frying pan and wipe off excess oil.
2. Flour milk and egg in blender.... Blend. Stir in the melted butter.
3. Heat pan on medium and ladle in batter - 1 ladle is thin, 2 ladles is thick (may depend on size of pan).
4. Swirl batter around pan to get good thin coverage. Cook until it starts to bubble and browns on the underside (1-2 mins).
5. Flip and scatter over a teaspoon of caster sugar (optional), cook for 30 seconds.
6. Turn on to plate and squeeze over lemon juice..
7. Should make 5-6 crêpes/ pancakes.

It's a day where people make lots of pancakes with all sorts of toppings and play all sorts of pancake-related games. Pancake Day, otherwise known as Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. In this video, you'll learn all about Pancake Day in The United Kingdom and how it's celebrated, from food to decorations, while building your English vocabulary. Join Gina for a dose of English culture! Browse our best recipes and get inspiration for sweet and savoury toppings.

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