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ensure that we don’t forget the key dates and events. Supermarkets, bakeries and corner shops bombard us with offers of pancakes, Hot-Cross buns and Easter eggs, while florists, chocolate and soap manufacturers get in on the act to remind us of our...
- Type: Article
- Author: EFDSS
- Category: British Folk Customs: From Plough Monday to Hocktide
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donned aprons and head scarves and waited in their kitchens for a bell to ring twice. The first warned them to make their pancakes and the second summoned them to congregate in the village square with their frying pans where the race would begin. The...
- Type: Article
- Author: EFDSS
- Category: British Folk Customs: From Plough Monday to Hocktide
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prohibited during Lent had to go, so huge feasts of meat, eggs, butter and other fats were prepared in the form of pancakes, which is how the day got its most popular title, Pancake Day. (It is interesting to note here that there are records of pancakes...
- Type: Article
- Author: EFDSS
- Category: British Folk Customs: From Plough Monday to Hocktide
- Language: *