Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 February 2010
11:0840764Does anyone carry on the age old tradition of Pancake Day or are you like me and had to be reminded of what today was?
I haven't had any pancakes or crepes for ages but have to admit I am partial to the ones they serve with Cointreau and cream in Paris!
16 February 2010
12:2940765We are having pancakes tonight Jeanne - wouldn't miss it!!
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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16 February 2010
13:5240766I`ll bring a lemon with me.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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16 February 2010
14:2540769all round Bern's then.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 February 2010
14:4740771That sounds like a plan!
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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16 February 2010
15:0740772Mmmmm, Crepes in Avignon - a happy distant memory, plus lots of fresh cherries by the kilo.
Tried to do a few last year myself - the pan still bears the scars
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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16 February 2010
15:5640773Usually yes. But we also have them at other times too. I had better check with my Domestic Engineer that they are on the menu for tonight.
Phil West
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16 February 2010
16:2240776We had simple pancakes with sugar and lemon this morning for breakfast - V couldnt wait - trying to remember which saint we are remembering.......? St Pancake was V's suggestion..
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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16 February 2010
17:0940777Ah yes pancakes are good...didnt have any but all sound very tasty above.
Big Dave I dont think it commemorates any saint as far as I know, but it is regarded as a last opportunity for feasting before the arrival of Lent tomorrow. You were allowed a bit of a 'pig out' before the austere weeks of Lent during which you had to sacrifice your favourite foods and so on. Im trying to remember now from my distant past, but I think Lent lasts 6 weeks . It starts tomorrow so today we feast.
During Lent this time around several Bishops have suggested we give up Ipods and Mobile Phones for the whole period. There you are..so spoketh the Bishop.
As if that was likely to happen...and certainly not amongst teenage girls
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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16 February 2010
17:1940778Have to say forgot all about today loads of lemon and sugar thats the best way, so thanks Jeane for reminding me
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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16 February 2010
17:4440782i thought it was just a tradition started in the middle ages, nothing to do with religion.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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16 February 2010
18:0040784As far as I know it is religious Howard as they even had religion in the middle ages. Without the flagellation of austerity and sacrifice, as is often suggested by religion, I doubt if anyone would be fasting. The pancakes came before the fast. But i suspect originally it might not have been pancakes..they may have come with Lyons Corner House.
16 February 2010
18:1640787OK then V was right - its St Pancake
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 February 2010
18:1940788I'm with V on that one........ like the idea of a St Pancake!
16 February 2010
18:1940789Pancakes tonight with lemon, clotted cream and honey & ginger ice cream. Yep, well over the top but if I am going to observe Lent (well, I might
) then I need to massively over-indulge on the pancake front.
There is only one thing left to say........ YUMMY!!!!!!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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16 February 2010
19:0440797i stand corrected, paul is right, it is an old christian tradiation.
checked with a church going neighbour who tells me that it was comandeered as a protestant thing at the time of henry the eighth, but had been a roman catholic tradition well before that.
i used to work with an irish catholic girl many years a day that always gave up cigarettes for lent.
the only problem was that she didn't smoke in the first place.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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16 February 2010
19:3140807Shrove tuesday comes from shrive tuesday which means to confess all sins. In oldendays the people would use all the ingredients that have been given up for the feasting period.
We are having pancakes tonight after tea with a choose of lemon, strawberries or sugar.
Natascha
Marek
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16 February 2010
20:4340818I have now done my research and it is Saint Juliana of Nicomedia day - she is the saint of childbirth and sickness.
So... if you eat too many pancakes and feel sick or pregnant - pray to st Juliana for relief!
16 February 2010
21:0440824Praying hard but it ain't working!
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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16 February 2010
21:0640825I pray every Wednesday and Saturday Sid, and believe me, it doesn`t work.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.