Pancake Day

Subject: Pancake Day
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 11:56 AM

Happy Shrove Tuesday

Musical content:

Pancake Tuesday is a holiday
If we don't get a holiday
We'll all run away!
Where will you run to?
We'll run down the lane.
I'll tell the teacher and
You'll get the cane!

Others?

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 12:10 PM

You know last night?
You know the night before?
Three tom cats came knocking at our door.
One had a fiddle, one had a drum,
And one had a pancake stuck to his bum.

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: greg stephens
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 12:24 PM

And, of course, any number of Mardi Gras songs.

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 12:42 PM

Is Fat Tuesday, or Shrove Tuesday, "Pancake Day" throughout England or the wider UK? Never heard of it in the U.S. Around here in Michigan it's "PAZKI" day. They're sweetrolls filled with jelly or custard, and for some reason undecipherable to me are pronounced "punch'key". Had a raspberry filled one for breakfast, and I have a lemon filled one on hand for later in the day.

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Windsinger
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 12:44 PM

Among the Pennsylvania Dutch in the community where I grew up, their spin on the whole pancakes-on-Shrove-Tuesday concept was something called Fastnacht Day. (Fastnachts being a type of homemade, hole-less, yeast-raised donut, only eaten hot and with syrup like American pancakes.)

The idea's likely familiar: "get all the rich cooking ingredients out of the house before Lent!"

Slán,

~Fionn

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Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 12:47 PM

Mardi Gras!!! Yay!!!

Show us your tits!

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: bobad
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 12:51 PM

"for some reason undecipherable to me are pronounced "punch'key""

The word is Polish for doughnut. The letter A in Pazki has a tail on it (Ą) and is pronounced as a nasal 'on' as in the French word bon.

My granny used to make the best in the world.

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:07 PM

Isn't it Jif Lemon day?

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: GUEST,Bagpuss
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:20 PM

Pancake Tuesday always causes rows in our house about whether to have proper pancakes (crepes), or scotch pancakes/drop scones. As I always end up making them, I get my way with crepes :-)

Bagpuss

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: rock chick
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:24 PM

Oh dear I forgot, ok I am just off to the kitchen to make up the mixture, we always have competions in tossing pancakes here...they will never forgive me if they turn up and I have forgotton all about it ;o(

Happy Shrove Tuesday everyone ;o))

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: MMario
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:25 PM

Hmmmppphhhh! "Scotch Pancakes" are far closer to "proper" pancakes then crepes. Crepes is sissified french.

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 01:43 PM

Pancake Day has been celebrated in Liberal,Kansas for many years

see here (Liberal's website is down at the moment)

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Mo the caller
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:24 PM

Well I haven't been to all of the UK, but I thought we all had pancake day.
In a village near us (Tarvin, Cheshire) they ring the Pasncake bell on Shrove Tuesday, and in various villages there are Pancake races (frying pan in hand and toss the pancake at the end), never seen one though.

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: My guru always said
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:43 PM

Ah yes, in a little while I'll hear the frying pan calling....

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 02:54 PM

Q What is the greatest Friday in the year?

A Pancake Tuesday

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Bernard
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 04:12 PM

"My son's name is David, 'cos he was born on St David's Day, March 1st. What's your son called, Bert?"

"He's called George, 'cos he was born on St George's Day, April 23rd! What's your son called, Alf?"

"Erm... Pancake..."

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 04:16 PM

We had the ingredients, we had the pancake makers..unfortunately we failed to find some of the GUESTS on mudcat to be the 'tossers' we needed for the pancakes.

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Bernard
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:42 PM

Sometimes it can be difficult finding enough maypoles... pancakes are lovely with maypole syrup...

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Forsh
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 07:12 PM

Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the ritual of shriving that Christians used to undergo in the past. In shriving, a person confesses their sins and receives absolution for them. When a person receives absolution for their sins, they are forgiven for them and released from the guilt and pain that they have caused them. In the Catholic or Orthodox context, the absolution is pronounced by a priest. This tradition is very old. Over 1000 years ago a monk wrote in the Anglo-Saxon Ecclesiastical Institutes:

In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him.
So, there ya go!

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: DougR
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 07:31 PM

My wife and I had lunch at IHOP (International House of Pancakes) here in Arizona yesterday and there were signs advertising "free pancakes" to one and all today on all the tables.

DougR

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 09:25 PM

International Pancake Day - Liberal/Olney

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: open mike
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 09:55 PM

in Sweden Shrove Tuesday buns are served..semlor.
they have almond paste or marzipan inside and
warm cream or whipped cream outside..
"In Sweden it is called Fettisdagen (Fat Tuesday).
We eat a Fettisdag buller. This is a round bun with
the middle part scooped out and replaced with ...
Marzipan with whipped cream. The top of the bun is
placed back on sprinkled with icing sugar."


Semlor - Shrove Tuesday Buns
From the Recipe Book:
Favorite Swedish Recipes - Edited by Selma Wifstrand


3 C flour
1/2 C lukewarm cream
1/2 C lukewarm water
1/2 C butter
1 yeast cake
4 T sugar

Filling:

1/2 C blanched almonds, ground
2-3 blanched bitter almonds, ground
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 egg white
1 cup cream, whipped

Make dough. Dissolve yeast cakes in 1/2 cup lukewarm milk. Mix remaining milk, sugar, salt, butter and cardamom seeds and small amount of flour; beat smooth. Add yeast and remaining flour, beating with wooden spoon until smooth and firm. Sprinkle dough with small amount of flour, cover with clean towel and let rise in warm place until doubled in bulk, about 2 hours. Turn onto lightly floured baking board and knead until smooth.

Shape dough into 12 balls. Arrange side by side on well buttered baking sheet, cover with towel and allow to rise. Brush with beaten egg and bake in hot oven (425 degrees F) until brown. Cool on towel.

Mix ground almonds, sugar, egg white and a little water; work until smooth. cut tops off buns, spread with paste and add tablespoon of whipped cream. Replace tops. Dust with powdered sugar.

Serve as dessert in deep individual dishes with hot milk, sugar and cinnamon.

are hot cross buns a tradition for this tuesday?

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: GUEST,AR
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 03:50 AM

"In Scotland the night had several names such as Beef Brose ans Bannock Night, Brosie, Sautie Bannock Night, Rappy Night, Shriften E'en and Fastern E'en...

'First come Candlemas, then the new meen,
The next Tuesday efter is aye Fastern's E'en'"

(Shiela Livingstone, "Scottish Festivals", Birlinn 1997)

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Mo the caller
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 05:23 AM

fascinating stuff, answering questions I would never have thought of asking.
Now, what is a Sautie bannock?
And what do the Welsh and the Irish eat?

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: GUEST,AR
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 05:26 AM

"Now, what is a Sautie bannock?"

It's an oatmeal pancake. "Sautie" means "salty."

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Ruler
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 08:55 AM

open mike - hot cross buns are reserved (I think) for Easter Sunday to commemmorate the resurrection; leastways that's when I have them - won't have them any other time despite my wife's remonstrations! Bloody Supermarkets making them available all year round. Some things should be kept seasonal.

All the Best

Steve.

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: IanC
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 08:58 AM

Ruler

Traditionally, Hot Cross Buns were reserved for Good Friday only. They (fairly obviously) commemorate the crucifixion.

Eggs on Easter Sunday.

:-)

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Ruler
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 09:08 AM

Cool,

I knew it was somewhere around then - of course it makes sense! As do the eggs.

Does anyone know why peas should be eaten on Ash Wednesday tho' - this is something my Grandmother was very insistent upon, and I dunno why.

Steve

Subject: RE: Pancake Day
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 09:19 AM

Fried peas "Carlins" were eaten in the North East on Carlin Sunday which was the Sunday before Palm Sunday (IE 2weeks before Easter)
Thre are many explanations for the origin of this now all but defunct tradition most of which refer either to siege or famine.
Carlins is also a local slang term for rabbit droppings which dried fried peas do indeed resemble.