{"id":23083,"date":"2025-03-04T03:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T03:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/?p=23083"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:57:44","slug":"all-about-shrove-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/all-about-shrove-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Shrove Tuesday, AKA Pancake Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shrove Tuesday is a day in either February or March, observed traditionally by some Christian sects. The exact date, however, changes every year as it is determined by Easter, which, as we know, changes every year due to the fact that Easter is always scheduled to fall on the Sunday that follows the full moon on or after March 21 \u2013 also known as the ‘Spring Equinox’ in the Northern Hemisphere. It marks the beginning of Lent, which historically forbade the consumption of fats like butter, milk and eggs. The meaning of the word ‘shrove’ even denotes the act of atoning for one’s sins.<\/p>\n

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It colloquially became known as ‘Pancake Day’ because many families would throw together pancakes \u2013 the most obvious way to use all of the outlawed items.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In some places (we’re looking at you New Orleans, with your wild parties on Bourbon Street), it is known as ‘Mardi Gras’ or ‘Fat Tuesday’, as it is technically seen as the last day of indulgence before Lent. Traditionally, Lent always takes place 47 days before Easter, but nowadays, it is not so strict. Most modern followers will give up a bad habit or seemingly unhealthy foods.<\/p>\n

While fully entrenched as a Christian institution, there are some beliefs that the practice of eating pancakes may have originated from a Pagan tradition, where eating warm, round pancakes was a way to symbolise the sun and welcome in spring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Along with eating delicious pancakes, some nations honour the day by holding pancake races \u2013 where you race to the finish line while flipping a pancake \u2013 or even pancake-flipping contests to see who can flip their pancake the highest. However you choose to celebrate Shrove Tuesday is fine by us, as long as you uphold the tradition of eating…<\/p>\n

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Shove Tuesday Pancake Recipes<\/h3>\n

Be it pancakes, flapjacks (American pancakes) or even cr\u00eapes, you best get to flipping with our selection of Shrove Tuesday-appropriate recipes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Recipe for Avocado Flapjack Stack<\/a>
\nRecipe for Ricotta Pancakes with Strawberry & Lemon Curd<\/a><\/p>\n

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Recipe for Coffee Flapjacks with Mocha Sauce<\/a>
\nRecipe for Breakfast Bacon Stack<\/a><\/p>\n

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Recipe for Vegan Flapjacks with Whipped Coconut Cream & Berry Coulis<\/a>
\nRecipe for Red Velvet Crumpets with Mascarpone & Maple Syrup<\/a><\/p>\n

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Recipe for Cast Iron Dutch Baby Pancake<\/a>
\nRecipe for ClemenGold Cr\u00eapes Suzettes<\/a><\/p>\n

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Recipe for Carrot Cake Crumpets with Lemon Whipped Cream Cheese<\/a>
\nRecipe for Rooibos Cr\u00e8me Br\u00fbl\u00e9e Cr\u00eape Cake<\/a><\/p>\n

Want more? Check out these delicious pancake and cr\u00eapes recipes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shrove Tuesday is a day in either February or March, observed traditionally by some Christian sects. The exact date, however, changes every year as it is determined by Easter, which, as we know, changes every year due to the fact that Easter is always scheduled to fall on the Sunday that follows the full moon on or after March 21 \u2013 also known as the ‘Spring Equinox’ in the Northern Hemisphere. It marks the beginning of Lent, which historically forbade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23083"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100171,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23083\/revisions\/100171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}