Tuesday 4th March was, of course, Pancake Day, and we were very excited when local theatre company London Bubble announced that they were organising a charity pancake race!
We didn’t need much persuading to put a team together to have fun while fundraising for LB+, London Bubble’s training programme offering life opportunities to unemployed young people who are also neither in education or training (NEET).
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Officially there’s only one Pancake Day – or Shrove Tuesday, to give it its proper name – which this year falls on Tuesday 4th March. But we think you’ll like our special pancake dishes so much that we’re making them available not just on Shrove Tuesday, but for the rest of the week as well, until Friday 7th March inclusive.
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You’ll probably know that Shrove Tuesday – also known as Pancake Day and Mardi Gras, or ‘Fat Tuesday’ - is a Christian tradition, whereby rich ingredients including milk, eggs and sugar are purposely used up before they are given up for the fast of Lent.
Less well-known-about however is Collop Monday, the day before Shrove Tuesday. This was traditionally the day to use the last of the meat in the house, (a ‘collop’ is a piece or slice of meat) which was usually bacon, served with eggs. The fat used to cook the bacon was then kept and used to cook the pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, ensuring that nothing went to waste.
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