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Tuesday, February 13.

Pancakes: A step-by-step guide.

Bacon pancakes, makin' bacon pancakes, take some bacon and I'll put it in a pancake. Bacon pancakes, that's what it's gonna make. Bacon pancaaaaake...

Which is all very well and good, but how to make a pancake, bacon or otherwise? Well, as luck would have it, we have this handy step-by-step guide. It could not be simpler.

1. Pour liquid pancake.

2. Squish misty proto-pancake.

3. Serve pancake, ascend.

4. Fly towards plate, eat pancake.

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"The Invitation" [S1 Ep02]

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Anyone up for a parade? The Schembartlauf (“the running of the masked men”) was a traditional element of Carnival in Nuremberg in Franconia. Celebrated on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, it consisted of a parade of men in masks and ornate costumes who came down from the castle into the city, culminating in a dramatic destruction of their parade float in the town square. The Schembartlauf is first documented in 1449 and came to a disastrous end in 1539. Read more about this tradition in Masks, Hells, and Books: The Nuremberg Schembartlauf (1449-1539).

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‘The Greaze is an annual custom unique to Westminster School, held each Shrove Tuesday since at least the mid 1700s but in a tradition likely to be medieval. A school cook tosses a pancake over an iron bar and pupils scramble to retrieve what they can of the pancake. The pupil with the largest piece wins a guinea from the Dean of Westminster, who also grants the whole school an extra day’s holiday — the ‘Dean’s play’.

The Greaze is the most anticipated event in the School diary and is a popular spectator event, notably in 1919 when it was attended by King George V and Queen Mary, alongside their sons, the future Edward VIII and George VI.’

Source: Westminster School

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Pancake Tuesday | Shrove Tuesday

Before the start of the Lenten fast, commonly known as ‘Pancake Tuesday’, (Shrove Tuesday) is a time when many still engage in the practice of making, tossing and eating mountains of pancakes. Over-indulgence is expected, if not demanded, and children will come into school on Ash Wednesday boasting of their pancake-eating feats. Generally, large, very thin pancakes are simply sprinkled with lemon…

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happy shrove tuesday, the official holiday where it is everyones lawful duty to listen to the song shrove tuesday by kofi young!

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Hurray! Pancake Day!

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Since 1445, a pancake race has been run in the town on many Pancake Days, the day before the beginning of Lent. Tradition records that in 1445 on Shrove Tuesday, the “Shriving Bell” rang out to signal the start of the Shriving church service. On hearing the bell a local housewife, who had been busy cooking pancakes in anticipation of the beginning of Lent, ran to the church, frying pan still in hand, tossing the pancake to prevent it from burning, and dressed in her kitchen apron and headscarf.

The women of Olney recreate this race every Shrove Tuesday (known in some countries as Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday) by running from the market place to the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, a distance of over 400 yards. The traditional prize is a kiss from the verger.

Since 1950, Olney competes with the town of Liberal, Kansas in the United States for the fastest time in either town to win the “International Pancake Race”.

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Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday is coming. How to make decadent and buttery pancakes?

1. Double the butter. 2. Add an extra egg yolk. 3. Use full-fat dairy. 4. Rest the batter 15 minutes (and up to an hour in the refrigerator). 5. Cook your pancakes in more butter (at 325°F; end result is browned butter.) 6. Serve them forth with style.

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Shrove Tuesday in the Country by Adriaen van de Venne

Dutch, c. 1625

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hey gang, it’s SHROVE TUESDAY - you know what that means, right? time to listen to shrove tuesday by kofi young! do it! do it now!

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#SHOWER OF CONFETTI😺🎊🐾

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Smoke pancakes on this Shrove Tuesday

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12 Feb. 1771 - Adolf Fredrik died at 60 at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. In the paper the next day, one could read: “His Majesty’s death has occurred from indigestion of lent bun, sauerkraut, meat with turnips, lobster, caviar and champagne wine.”

It’s described how he started experiencing stomach pain and dizziness before ultimately passing away. Nowadays, it’s believed he had a stroke which led to his death, but back then, his appetite got blamed for the king’s death and still today, he’s known as the king who died after eating too many lent buns (Swedish: semlor).

Count Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, who became a courtier in 1774, wrote that Shrove Tuesday should be banned and that “[the lent bun should be] driven into exile from Sweden, since it committed a royal murder.”

Photo: Sara Friberg, The Royal Court of Sweden

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