Pancake Day, also known as Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday, is celebrated by making and eating pancakes. The document provides a recipe for making pancakes that includes ingredients like flour, eggs, milk, and butter. The instructions describe sieving the dry ingredients, mixing in the wet ingredients, letting the batter rest, heating a pan, cooking the pancakes until golden brown on both sides, and serving with toppings like chocolate, strawberries, or lemon and sugar. The document concludes by asking the reader to write a recipe for a traditional Spanish dish using clear imperative instructions.

2. Do you know what Pancake
Day is?
0 Other name for Pancake Day: Mardi Gras, Shrove
Tuesday
0 What is Shrove Tuesday?
0 Why do we celebrate it?

3. What is a Pancake?
0 What would you have on a Pancake?
0 Chocolate
0 Strawberries
0 Lemon and sugar
0 Sweet vs savoury?

4. How to make a Pancake
0 Ingredients:
0 225g / 8 oz plain or all-purpose flour
0 Pinch salt
0 2 large, fresh eggs
0 600ml / 2½ cups milk
0 2 tsp melted butter plus extra melted butter for
cooking

5. The Steps
0 Sieve the flour into a large baking bowl, add the salt. Make a well
in the centre of the flour and add the eggs. Beat well until smooth
and lump free.
0 Add half the milk and the 2 tsp of butter, beat well. Add the
remaining milk and stir.
0 Leave the batter to rest for 15 minutes.
0 Lightly grease a pancake pan or frying pan with a little melted
butter. Heat until very hot and add a ladleful of batter so it evenly
and thinly coats the base of the pan. Cook until set and lightly
golden.
0 Using a spatula or if you are really brave try tossing the pancake
in the air, and cook on the other side for approx 30 seconds.
0 Slip the pancake from the pan onto a warm plate. Cover the plate
with a tea cloth and keep warm. Continue as above until all the
batter is used up. Or eat it straight away!

6. Activity
0 Now you have seen a recipe for Pancakes, it’s your
turn.
0 Think of a traditional Spanish food that you like to
make or are very good at cooking.
0 Use the imperative to create your instructions.
0 Make sure your recipe is clear and someone reading it
will know exactly what to do.
0 Notice which person the recipe is written in.