On the back of the Bisquick box is the “melt in your mouth” option – add lemon juice, sugar, baking powder and vanilla to the regular batter recipe. The lemon juice and baking powder combine to make bubbles (making the batter lighter); I assume the sugar is to counter-balance the lemon juice.
My father used to sing a little song while making pancakes:
Ash Wednesday, Shrove Tuesday poor Jack went to plow
His wife made him pancakes but didn’t know how
She flipped them and tossed them and burnt them so black
She made the so awful she poisoned poor Jack
He was of English descent (his father was born in England), FWIW.
Irish Catholic raised in Northern Virginia - never heard of pancakes for Shrove Tuesday until my twenties. My friends across the Potomac in Maryland all can’t believe this, as it was a huge thing int he Catholic churches there.
The Homesick Texan was raised Episcopalian. Here’s her Uncle Austin’s Mexican Pancakceswith Coconut. There’s also a link to Gingerbread Pancakes for Shrove Tuesday.
Another check from a Texan Episcopalian. In fact I’m getting off work early today to go set up tables at church for the pancake dinner. We call it Shrove Tuesday.
The pancake dinner thing is common enough around here for most people to at least have heard of it. Though eating king cakes is more common. (I hate those king cakes). There will be certainly be some king cakes at the dinner tonight, as well as some of those Polish do-nuts. Never accuse Episcopalians of not being ecumenical, at least when it comes to food.
As a Roman Catholic kid in the 1960s- seems like we would often have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras. I had forgotten all about it until someone mentioned the tradition here on the Dope a couple years ago.
I try to stop by IHOP if I remember, though last year my local IHOP was packed.
In Liberal, Kansas, and Olney, England, they celebrate International Pancake Day. Each city has a race featuring women flipping pancakes in a pan and running down the street.
I never heard of Shrove Tuesday until an English friend told me they were having pancakes for dinner. She also called it Pancake Tuesday. I’ve never heard of paczki’s until this thread either.
Hey what do you expect? I’m a dyed in the wool atheist and haven’t celebrated obscure religious holidays in ages.
I grew up in a fairly “low” church. Other than Christmas and Easter, I didn’t know what the other religious holidays were either. My family still celebrated Packzi Day but it wasn’t for religious reasons. We just loved donuts.
