Pancake Day
Next Tuesday, many people the world over will be celebrating Pancake Day. What does it mean? And how did it originate? Shrove Tuesday is the name given to the days immediately preceding Ash ■Wednesday. These were ancient days of preparation for the penitential time of Lent, sometimes called Fastingtide. Shrovetide is still revived in England. having been brought back after the Reformation. Shriving was later abandoned in England and the pastimes of football, cock-fighting and bull-bait-ing were long recognised customs of Shrovetide. The festive banquets are still represented by the pancakes and fritters from which Pancake Tuesday took it's name. In New Zealand few people keep the custom, but Pancake Day means to many children overseas that pancakes, squeezed over witli lemon, await them for dinner. — Detective Lloyd (17), Wellington.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 25
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132Pancake Day Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 25
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