What did you have on your pancakes and what will you be giving up for Lent?

We’ve not had pancakes today due to DH birthday but when we have them we like bacon mushrooms and cheese in them and then covered in baked beans. Yummy!

I could do with giving up red wine for Lent but that’s never going to happen.

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I could do with giving up red wine for Lent but that’s never going to happen.

Does that mean, if I give up red wine for Lent, I could drink white?

Of course lol

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That was my understanding too. I've never heard of Shrove Tuesday being a day of Fast and Abstinence.

That can't be right. The Germans in (very Catholic) Cologne call the season (culminating in a wild Extended weekend from the Thursday leading up to Shrove Tuesday) ... well, they call it Carneval. The Carne part refers to meat. So you would indulge in meat and rich foods and drink. This would fit in with the yearly cycle in the Northern hemisphere when stores could be plundered as soon fresh produce would be available with the approach of Spring and young animals are born.

From Ash Wednesday on, i.e. during Lent, is when you're supposed to fast, not eat meat etc. I can't imagine that the tradition is much different in Protestant churches because it is based on the 40 days that Jesus (and, I think, before him, his cousin John) spent fasting and doing penance in the desert.

I don’t do pancake day as such any more, but when Gdcs are staying, as they were very recently, every day is a pancake day for Gdd1 - ‘Nutella* pancakes please, Granny!’

I should probably give various things up for Lent, but I don’t mind admitting that I won’t.

*I really ought to give up finishing the jar of Nutella with a spoon!

We had our pancakes filled with prawns, then with lemon and sugar (and some with golden syrup for DH). I had five.

I’m going to have a go (yet again) at limiting my screen time during Lent and doing something useful instead.

Giving up chocolate for Lent, as have had a bit of a craving for it lately. So no more until Easter Sunday, by then I’m hoping it will be to sweet to eat.

Just for fun I did gluten free pancakes, they turned out surprisingly good, more fragile but did stay whole. Served them with lemon juice and sugar, OH did recognise them as GF then scoffed the lot and asked for more - job done!.

Grandson had a pancake at nursery at snack time. He was most impressed with this because usually it's fruit or veg.

He asked for more at dinner time and I obliged, at which point he refused to eat them. Ungrateful!

Can't get past lemon and sugar ever. Watching news programmes.

Well, having bought a lemon a week too early, so used it for something else, I then forgot it completely last night. So no pancakes. But I will make some this evening. I'm hopeless!
Lemon is my favourite.

Oh, Lent. Chocolate I think.

Had a total flop last year making pancakes for DGS (I've still no idea what went wrong as I've been making them for decades with no problem) Tried again yesterday, pancakes were absolutely perfect. DGS likes honey on his, we had lemon and sugar, as usual.

I'm now wondering why lemon & sugar seems to be the standard accompaniment for pancakes. Does anyone know the history behind it?

Not giving up anything.

Always seem to produce a messy dud one before I get into the rhythm, I call them the practice ones …I wonder why?

I think this happens when your pan isn't hot enough. I always used to get a 'practice' one too, this year I waited till the pan was smoking before putting any batter in and it worked.

I have never liked pancakes and won`t give up anything i enjoy.
Lifes too short.

I forgot so having them today !

Only found out it was pancake day yesterday afternoon! but have never missed a pancake day in nearly 50 years, this includes when I went to college and once made pancakes for 30 people(as I knew how) and even when travelling abroad(including tent camping in Australia) as my husband would not forgive me. Only when desperate have I resorted to pancake mix as they are so easy to make. Must have a decent based small pan and use sunflower oil to cook when and I heat the pan empty to start.
yesterday as no lemons in the house I used vanilla sugar, oranges and passion fruit.
My son got used to pancakes being there from a young age and was amazed to find when travelling in the US they were available for breakfast and now he makes them regularly for his son but serves with maple syrup or honey!

Fresh lemon juice and maple syrup. Not religious though so not giving up anything.

I'm a lemon and sugar girl for pancakes and make them as we did as children. Proper batter left overnight.
Others in the house like fuit, syrup and cream on theirs.
For lent, giving up snacks in the evening. Over winter seem to have developed a habit similar to Gogglebox families of laying treats out on the coffee table. So none of that now..dinner, dessert, coffee and nothing other than drinks until breakfast.

I don't give up anything for lent as I'm not a practising Christian
Pancakes we always have with freshly squeezed lemon ? juice and sugar

I forgot it was pancake tuesday and am giving up nothing because i am an atheist. I will donate to the collection for Ukraine though.

One thing I feel like giving up for Lent is my faith in humanity as I view the horror of the war in Ukraine. But I won’t as I do have a little faith that truth, goodness and peace will win through … eventually. I thought about simply giving up on my Russian language lessons too, but again, I won’t, as some magnificent and universal literature has been written in that tormented country. Don’t like pancakes and my plans to have blini, smetana and smoked salmon for breakfast as I did when I visited Russia some years ago left a nasty taste in my mouth somehow, so I didn’t bother. My prayers are with those brave souls in Ukraine and with those on BOTH sides who fear for their menfolk in this benighted and misguided war.

No pancakes DH not to good , I gave alcohol for lent in 2000 have not reached Easter Sunday and don't intend to. One one day at a time.

Lentil pancakes with masala potatoes, chutney and ve yoghurt. Yum and filling. Dogs had traditional pancakes.