
And it’s pancake day again, yay!!! We’ve been thinking about it all day and what we are going to put on them. Chocolate as well as the traditional lemon and sugar seem most popular in the Easy2name office.
Pancake day, or officially Shrove Tuesday signifies the last day before the start of Lent. Tomorrow many Christians will be giving up something up until Easter Sunday. Originally pancakes were created from the need to use foodstuffs up ready for lent, including eggs and butter which were banned for Lent. The tradition has continued over hundreds of years. The earliest traces of pancakes though go back to Ancient Greece.
Shrove Tuesday is celebrated all over the world, with different takes on the pancake.
In Greece, the day is called Apocreas which means ‘from the meat’. Meat there is forbidden during Lent. Greek pancakes are called tiganites, they are generally thicker than our British pancakes and are often topped with honey and cinnamon, and sometimes with cheese, nuts, fruits or vegetables.
In Sweden it is called Fettisdagen (Fat Tuesday). Traditional Swedish pancakes can be a little more interesting. They have the usual thin pancakes, called pannkakor, which often come with whipped cream and jam and are eaten for lunch on Thursdays with pea soup! They also have plättar which are more like little English pancakes, and are fried several at a time in a special pan. The Sweeds are also known for having pancakes with saffron and rice or äggakaka (eggcake), which are very thick pancakes often served with lingonberries and bacon!!
In Iceland the day is called “Sprengidagur” which translates to Bursting day! Their pancakes are known as pönnukaka. Generally they are quite small, thick and brown in colour. They cook them in a spaciel pancake frying pan, which is never meant to be washed!
So what will you be having on your pancakes or giving up for Lent?
After posting William Shakespeare’s peoms on Valentine’s Day and celebrating the bi-centenary of Charles Dickens last week. We wanted to look into our best British writers.

Another charity close to our earts is Help for Heroes. Numerous gifts and cards were purchased from their shop for Christmas and we support them where ever we can.
Today is our Queens Accession Day, marking 60 years on the throne (only the second ever monarch to do so).
With the temperature plummeting at the moment, as low as -11 in some places and snow highly likey to be on its way.


