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What date is Pancake Tuesday 2022? Here's a fun Scottish recipe to enjoy
23.02.2022 - 18:15 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A fun day for people to tuck into a big plate of pancakes (or two), the date of Shrove Tuesday changes every year.
The reason for this is its traditional connection to Shrove Tuesday and the timing of this movable festival day being dictated by the arrival of Lent (and Ash Wednesday) in Christian churches.
It will usually always fall in February or March and can be used to gauge the arrival of spring and falls exactly six weeks before Easter is celebrated.
In 2022, Shrove Tuesday (or Fastern’s E’en as it was sometimes known in Scotland) will fall on March 1, the day before Ash Wednesday on March 2.
As mentioned above, Shrove Tuesday marks the last day of freedom before Lent, which would have been a 40-day period of abstinence before the celebration of Easter.
A good excuse to use up any sugar, eggs, milk and butter left lingering in your cupboards, meaning eating them would help to prepare for the fasting season ahead.
Indeed in Scotland, traditional versions such as the Festy Cock – a type of oatmeal pancake – were made by Scottish monks.
It seems that this practice has persisted and even become popular in modern times because it was often seen as a social affair with such an easy recipe making it possible for anyone to get involved.
No one is really sure why pancakes were so widespread on this day as Scots would have probably made other items such as Crumpets and bannocks but perhaps it is the fact that pancakes are so easy to make and adaptable that has made them so popular.
One other theory is that each ingredient used in pancake making may have represented one of the 'four pillars of the Christian faith'.
Eggs for creation, flour as sustenance or the staff of life, salt for wholesomeness and milk for purity.
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