Pancake Day

We will have a Pancake Day meal after the church service on Sunday March 2nd. There will be a sausage sizzle with salads and then pancakes. The cost will be $5 for adults and $2 for children. This is a fundraiser for Uniting. Contributions of pancake mix and salads would be welcome.

A little history: For perhaps thousands of years, people in Europe have celebrated the time just before spring. Some historians suggest that a festival of eating pancakes goes as far back as pre-Christian times. In 1439, the first pancake recipe appears in history, with the first Pancake Races recorded in 1445 in England. This was the last day to eat all the flour, eggs and dairy products in your kitchen before the start of Lent which is a time of abstinence and reflection in the 40 days before Easter. The European custom of making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday was one way to use up these ‘luxury’ items and over the centuries, Shrove Tuesday and pancakes became perfect partners. Shrove Tuesday has become a traditional day to celebrate throughout the world.