is Shrove Tuesday, so with a nod to British traditions is required as we race around with pancakes.
The pancake has a very long history and featured in cookery books as far back as 1439.
Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of fasting and on Shrove Tuesday, Anglo-Saxon Christians went to confession and were “shriven” (absolved from their sins).
Shrove Tuesday was the last opportunity to use up eggs and fats before embarking on the Lenten fast and pancakes are the perfect way of using up these ingredients.
Today dozens of Livery members split into teams and raced around Guildhall Yard for the Inter-Livery Pancake Race raising money and having quaint English fun.
