Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Tuesday, marks the start of Lent and falls 40 days before Easter. Traditionally, pancakes were made on this day to use up ingredients like eggs and milk before fasting during Lent. In the UK, pancake flipping contests and pancake races are held where people race through the streets carrying pancakes in frying pans. Pancakes are usually eaten with sugar and lemon but other toppings like Nutella are also popular. The recipe involves mixing flour, eggs and milk then cooking the pancakes in a hot pan by tossing them.

1. SHROVE TUESDAY
(Pancake Tuesday)

2. SHROVE TUESDAY
•Shrove Tuesday is a Christian tradition.
•In the UK, it is called PANCAKE TUESDAY.
•Pancake Tuesday marks the first day of LENT,
which is the 40 days and 40 nights before
EASTER.
•The date of Pancake Tuesday changes every year
because it is 40 days before Easter, and Easter is a
different date each year.
•This year Pancake Tuesday is Tuesday 12th
February.

3. WHY PANCAKES?
•People traditionally made Pancakes on Shrove
Tuesday to use up all the eggs, flour, sugar and
milk before they began to FAST for lent.
•People all over the UK cook pancakes in their
homes on Pancake Tuesday, and TV shows
sometimes have Pancake Competitions on TV.

4. PANCAKE COMPETITIONS
•People in England like to have competitions on
Pancake Tuesday
•The two main types of Pancake competitions:
•> Pancake Flipping Contests
•> Pancake Races

5. PANCAKE FLIPPING
CONTESTS
•To Flip a pancake, is to toss it up in to the air, so
that it turns over in the pan.
•The aim of the pancake flipping competition is
to see how many times the contestants can flip
their pancake within a certain time. E.g 2
minutes
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6. PANCAKE RACES
•In some parts of England, every Pancake Day
people hold Pancake Races’, where they run
through the streets with their frying pans and
toss their pancakes.
•The rules of the competition mean that you
have to wear an APRON and a BANDANA.
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7. HOW TO EAT PANCAKES?
•Traditionally pancakes on Pancake Tuesday are
eaten with sugar and lemon.
•However, now people choose to put different
things on their pancakes such as Nutella, or
honey.
•The Pancakes are more similar to Crêpes, than
American style pancakes.

8. HOW TO MAKE PANCAKES?
Ingredients:
•120 g plain flour
•2 eggs
•300 ml milk
•cooking oil, for __________
Method:
1._______ the flour into a bowl and make a hole

9. TO COVER:
To cover
something is to
put a lid on top of
it, to keep the
heat inside it.

10. TO FLIP/TOSS:
To flip or to toss a
pancake is to throw
the pancake up in the
air, out of the pan, and
to catch it again.
The pancake needs to
be turned over on to
the other side, so that
both sides will be
cooked.

11. TO SIFT:
To sift means
to use a sieve
to filter flour,
to removes
any lumps
from the flour.

12. TO WHISK:
To whisk, means to
mix all the
ingredients
together with a
whisk, so that you
end up with a
smooth liquid.

13. TO SPREAD:
To spread is to smooth the product out, so
that it is even and covers the whole surface.
For example:
Spreading butter or jam on toast
Spreading oil into a pan

14. TO HEAT:
To heat something
up, is to turn
something cold,
into something
hot, usually when
talking about
cooking food.

15. TO POUR:
To pour means
to transfer a
liquid from one
container to
another.

16. FRYING:
To fry something,
is a way of
cooking, in a
special pan called
a Frying Pan.
We make pancakes
in a frying pan.