Shrove Tuesday Means Pancakes

Shrove Tuesday is

"Pancake Day"

The tradition started in the Middle Ages when, to use up one's stores of flour and fat,

one ate pancakes on the day before Lent

Known as "Shrove Tuesday" in some parts of the world,

Known as "Mardi Gras" in others.

We like the Shrove Tuesday tradition of panckes.

Which makes a lovely winter breakfast

With little sausages, real butter and real maple syrup

And coffee . . . coffee is so much better with pancakes.

Breakfast is always blue and white

And in winter, a bowl of Clementines is often on the breakfast room table.

Tonight we shall go to Trinity Lutheran Church

in our little town

for they always have a Pancake Feed

It's their Shrove Tuesday tradition!

And tomorrow?

Linderhof's Ash Wednesday Traditions

The real German painted hen's eggs for the Easter egg tree in the dining room

My great great grandmother's glass eggs in a bowl on the coffee table

And the antique French lamb molds on the breakfast room table.