The forgotten history of why we make pancakes on Shrove Tuesday - The ritual of eating pancakes to mark the start of Lent has been observed in Britain since around the 16th century ...

Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day, will be celebrated on Tuesday, 17 February this year. The exact date moves every year because, like Easter, it is based on a calendar calculation involving ...

Elizabeth Hammond’s Modern Domestic Cookery (1819) includes this pancake recipe: “Take eggs, flour and milk, with which make a light batter. Add nutmeg, ginger and salt, fry them in plenty of hot lard ...

Shrove Tuesday: Indulgent classics and healthy spins from Mary Berry, Jamie Oliver, Joe Wicks and more - RECIPES: Hannah Twiggs rounds up the recipes worth flipping this year, including favourites ...

Recipes from the first published cookbooks show that in England, pancakes were made very thinly from lots of wet ingredients ...