Plans for Shrove Tuesday (pancakes)?
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Anonymous
| Anyone have fresh inspiration for pancakes on Tuesday? I’m feeling uninspired by the usual variations (blueberry, chocolate chip, sourdough, etc.). Anybody seen anything else creative lately? Can be batter, toppings, presentation. Just looking to make it a bit special—it’s supposed to feel indulgent, and we eat a lot of pancakes as it is. |
Anonymous
OP, I’m interested in what others might say. Having said that, since I make this dinner on a weeknight every year after work, I usually only have enough energy for the usual variations. 
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Anonymous
| Tuesday is Fasnacht Day in our house. Donuts will use up the fats and flour for us. |
Anonymous
| mardi gras "cake", which is really a sweetend brioche dough filled and frosted. They are not hard to make and also use up all the requisite fat and sugar |
Anonymous
| Oh crap is that this coming Tuesday? |
Anonymous
| Oven pancakes. Post recently had a recipe. |
Anonymous
Is this like a Dutch baby? Another favorite around here. (I’m the OP.) Maybe I need to do a little reflecting on how often we eat variations on pancakes. |
Anonymous
| Ottolenghi’s column in the Guardian this week has a few unusual recipes. |
Anonymous
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Add sprinkles to the batter! make the pancakes with funfetti
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Anonymous
What’s with Tuesday pancake dinner? Is this like a help the homeless thing because they’re so cheap? Used to do that in elementary. |
Anonymous
no, not at all. Its an old liturgical tradition. Wednesday is the beginning of lent. So you eat pancakes on Tuesday to use up all the sugar and eggs and milk you have in the house, since you won't be eating those things during lent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday#:~:text=The%20association%20between%20pancakes%20and%20Shrove%20Tuesday%20appears,Shrove%20Tuesday%20since%20at%20least%20the%20sixteenth%20century. |
Anonymous
| OP again. I just remembered that I had a tab open for months with the recipe for Rosa Parks’ Peanut Butter Pancakes and for some reason never made them. What better time than Shrove Tuesday during Black History Month!? (What kind of Mom Of The Year award can I get for integrating religion and history lessons into dinner with a simple pancake??) |
Anonymous
Oh god  it’s pancakes OP. Chill the F out.
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Anonymous
I am thrilled to learn I’m not the only person who finds an interesting recipe and then ‘saves’ by not closing the tab until I have like a dozen open tabs, all with random recipes I found online. Hope your peanut butter pancakes are tasty! |
Anonymous
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The tradition of Shrove Tuesday has nothing to do with using up ingredients but rather to indulge the last night before the fasting of Lent.
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