2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
According to many, the day of pancakes is Sunday, every Sunday. But they are not right. For centuries, these temptingly delicious desserts have their own day.
World Pancake Day it is not celebrated on an exact date, but on the day of the Catholic Sirni Zagovezni, which is why it is celebrated every year on a different day.
The choice of this day is not random. For Catholics, Protestants, Anglicans and Calvinists, Shrove Tuesday is celebrated on the Tuesday of the seventh week before Easter.
The next day (Wednesday) Lent begins. So this Tuesday is the last day before Easter, when believers can afford to eat pancakes, because it is also the last day on which milk, eggs and other dairy products are allowed to be consumed.
In fact the feast of pancakes, which is gladly celebrated by Catholics, Protestants, Anglicans and Calvinists, has pagan roots.
It is believed that the tradition to be celebrated the day of the pancake comes from a small village whose inhabitants organize a strange pancake competition every year.
Traditionally, each housewife participated in the competition. Each of the participants had to prepare pancakes with their own hands, after which they competed to see who would toss the pancakes in the pan for the longest time while walking. The prize for the winner was a prayer book or a Bible.
Of course, the British are not the only ones obsessed with the pancakeswho have dedicated a special day to them. In other parts of the world Pancake day bears names like Mardi Gras (translated from French Blessed Tuesday) or Fasnacht (Carnival).
But let's go back to the British and their crazy marathon-style pancake-throwing race. It is believed that this tradition originated around the 15th century, and the blame for this lies with an extremely distracted British housewife.
According to legend, the person in question rushed to the church to confess his sins while preparing pancakes for his family. And whether the priest received a delicious pancake, we can only guess.
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