Show i MONKS MADE FIRST PANCAKES Delicious De Comestibles Once Formed Supper of Holy Men on Eve of Ash Wednesday Pe Perhaps haps you admit ignorance as to knowing how pancakes first came to tobe tobe tobe be produced Well the story is very Interesting ng and worth telling London Answers vers says ys Monks were the originators of 01 pancakes pancakes pancakes pan pan- I cakes and we are told that on Shrove Tuesday their supper consisted of thin cakes made in a pan with flour milk eggs fat lard Jard etc hence hence pancakes The Idea was to use up all the foodstuffs foodstuffs foodstuff's foodstuffs food food- stuffs stuff's remaining which were prohibited prohibited pro pro- on the following day day Ash Ash Wednesday the commencement of in the olden days the poor people people peo peo- pie would gather round various monastery monastery mon mon- astery gates It being the custom for the monks to distribute what pancake pancakes they had left after supper among the hungry slum dwellers Shrovetide and Shrove Tuesday by the vv way ay vv were ere In the first place called shrive days They w were ere so called from the fact that in the Roman Catholic church confessions are then made and received preparatory reparatory to the fast of Lent Shrive which meant confession later came to be called Shrove thus Shrove thus we now v get Shrove Sunday and Shrove Tuesday S |