Host your own Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper - Jazz music,
fellowship, and your own beginning of the Lent season, celebrated by serving
gourmet pancakes!
Known around the world as “Pancake Tuesday, Fat Tuesday,
or Mardi Gras;” Shove Tuesday is the day preceding Ash Wednesday, the first day
of the season of fasting and prayer called Lent. It is customary among many
religions to eat pancakes on the day preceding Lent because that was a way to
use up rich foodstuffs such as eggs, milk, and sugar before the fasting season
of the 40 days of Lent.
The name came from the word ‘shrive’ which means to hear
confess. It was a tradition in earlier times for people to confess their sins
on Shrove Tuesday so as to prepare for the penitential season of turning to God.
Shrove Tuesday was noted in histories dating back to 1000 AD. The popular
celebratory aspect of the day was associated with releasing high spirits before
the somber season of Lent and is akin to the continuing Carnival tradition
associated with Mardi Gras.
In the United States, the term Shrove Tuesday is less
widely known outside of people who observe the liturgical traditions of the
Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, and Catholic churches. It is also a day of celebration to mark the
beginning of the carnival parade season, ushered in by women and young girls.
The celebration also includes carnivals and colorful parades where the people
wear elaborate and flamboyant masks and costume, and dance.
2 cups flour
2 tablespoons sugar
4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups buttermilk
4 tablespoons melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 beaten eggs
Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl, whisk, set aside. Combine
the wet ingredients in a second bowl, whisk. Add the wet ingredients to the dry
and whisk until just combined. Fry in a pan with butter/oil mixture. Top with
maple syrup. Don't skimp on the ingredients – use real the real stuff including
maple syrup.
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