HomeRegistrationsFlipping Heck it’s Pancake Day! Jayne Henry February 9, 2018 Registrations Pancakes are easy to make and lots of fun, can you do the perfect flip? The ingredients are cheap, and they’re not all that bad for you if you’re still on a New Year’s health kick. You can get experimental with your toppings too, why not have a whole pancake meal, with a cheese and ham savoury pancake for your main course, then pancakes smothered in chocolate sauce and whipped cream for dessert? Go wild with your pancakes on Pancake Day! It’s a moveable feast Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday is always 47 days before Easter, and as Easter doesn’t always fall on the same day, neither does Pancake Day. This year it falls on the 13th of February. What’s the point of Pancake Day? Originally, making pancakes was a way of using up food in the home before the 40 days of fasting for lent. Eggs aren’t going to last for 40 days, so it’s a great way to eat them up. While some people still fast for lent, more commonly these days, we simply give up something that’s a bad for us, chocolate, alcohol and the like. But even people who aren’t religious at all enjoy pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, it’s become a tradition for everyone. In fact, it’s so popular, in the UK, the amount of eggs used more than doubles. On a normal day, 22 million eggs are consumed. On Pancake Day, that figure soars to 52 million eggs! That’s going to keep the hens busy! Want to try for the World Record? Are you a fabulous flipper? The World Record for flipping pancakes is set at 349 flips in two minutes. Could you beat this? Now’s a great time to get practising! You could even enter the Poundland ‘Top Tosser’ competition. Just post a photo of your best pancake toss to social media with the hashtag #PoundlandTopTosser and you could bag the £50 voucher prize. You’ve got until midnight on the 14th to enter your photos. Bargain Hunters – Head to Iceland Iceland have a great Pancake Day offer on at the moment that runs until the end of Pancake Day. Buy a £5 frying pan in store and you’ll get all the ingredients for making pancakes, for free! This includes pancake mix, Frylight cooking spray, maple syrup and lemon juice. So get picking out your pancake toppings and get flipping those pancakes, have a brilliant Pancake Day!
