Trinity Parish

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper - February 24, 2009

Trinity Parishioners had great fellowship together on Shrove Tuesday eating pancakes prepared by parishioners.

Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of the 40-day Lenten fasting period when the faithful were forbidden by the church to consume meat, butter, eggs or milk. However, if a family had a store of these foods they all would go bad by the time the fast ended on Easter Sunday. What to do? Solution: use up the milk, butter and eggs no later than Shrove Tuesday. And so, with the addition of a little flour, the solution quickly presented itself in... pancakes. And lots of them! Today, the Shrove Tuesday pancake tradition lives on throughout Western Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia, the United Kingdom and other countries.

The line for pancakes went on and on ...
Banana, chocolate chip, blueberry and all kinds of pancakes!
Thanks to our cooks who did a great job!
A good time was had by all.