Show MONKS MADE FIRST PANCAKES Delicious Comestibles Once Formed Supper of Holy Men on n Eve of of Ash Wednesday I Perhaps you admit ignorance as as to knowing how pancakes first came to tobe tot toe t be e produced Well Yell the time story Is very veTy Interesting and worth telling London Answers says Monks were the originators of pancakes pancakes pancakes pan pan- cakes and we are told that on n Shrove Tuesday their supper consisted of thin cakes made In a pan with flour milk eggs fat lard etc hence hence pancakes es The Idea was to use up all the foodstuffs food food- foodstuffs stuffs remaining which were prohibited prohibited prohibited pro pro- on the following folio da day day Ash Ash Ash Wednesday the commencement of Lent In the olden days the time poor POOl people peo peo- people pIe would gather round various monastery monastery monastery mon mon- astery gates It being the custom for forthe forthe forthe the monks to distribute what pancakes they ey had l left ft af after er supper Cupper amon among the hungry slum dwellers Shrovetide and Shrove Tuesday by bythe bythe the way were In the first pla place c called shrive days They were so called from the fact that In the Roman Catholic church confessions are then made and received preparatory to the fast of Lent Shrive which meant confession later came to be called Shrove thus Shrove thus we now get Shrove e Sunday and Shrove Tuesday |