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February 2004
Flipping heck! It's pancake day!
pancakes
Pancake day is on 24 February 2004

Sweet or savoury, thick or thin pancakes are enjoyed all over the world on pancake day.
So how do you eat yours?

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BBC Food: Pancake day

BBC Religion: Shrove Tuesday

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FACTS

Ralf Laue from Leipzig broke the world record by tossing a pancake 416 times in 2 minutes and

Mike Cuzzacrea ran a marathon while continually tossing a pancake for no less that 3 hours, 2 minutes and 27 seconds.

The world's biggest pancake was cooked in Rochdale in 1994, it was an amazing 15 metres in diameter, weighed three tonnes and had an estimated two million calories.

The French name Mardi Gras (literally 'fat Tuesday') for Shrove Tuesday has been given to a number of carnivals around the world.

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Shrove Tuesday is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. It takes place on 24 February in 2004.

Originally on Shrove Tuesday (pancake day) you used up all the ingredients you had left in the larder that you weren't allowed to eat during Lent - the 40 days running up to Easter.

The tradition has moved beyond that now and many places have annual pancake day races, pancake eating competitions and more.

But for most of us the best bit about pancake day is just the cooking, tossing and of course the eating of them.

Tossing a pancake
To toss a pancake successfully takes a certain skill. A combination of the perfect pancake batter and good hand flipping technique is important.

We've all had those experiences where half the pancake is stuck to the pan while the other half is swinging from the curtain rail. Best tip we can give you is to practice - preferably alone so you don't dissolve into fits of giggles while trying.

How do you eat yours?
Whether you prefer to eat your pancakes with lemon and sugar or spinach and cheese, here are some BBC recipes to have you smacking your lips.

How do you like your pancakes? Share your recipes and cooking tips by filling in the form at the bottom of the page.

Your pancake recipes and tips

Harriet
OMG!!! Am i freak? I like orange and sugar on mine

glen
I love pancakes with butter and corn syrup (Karo). They are also delicious cooked with fresh or frozen blueberries and then topped with syrup and cream.

Lisa P
Start with pancakes, mince and gravy topped with cheese and then have them with ice-cream, chocolate sauce and fresh cream!! Yum-Yum!!

carmen
pancakes are so fantastic eaten as you cook with the sugar and lemon, yummy!!

chris smith
I hate pancakes they are disgusting

karen
I like pancakes with nutella and banana!

alexander
i think that it is a good website you have made...I eat my pancakes with sugar and milk

Aly F
I've never tried pancakes with sugar and lemon!

bhaskar
I never had a pancake! Wish i could just taste one, seems amazing!

Jamie
I like pancakes rolled up w/sausages inside.

Borja's split
fried banana cream and dried fruits and scotish whisky

stary
pancakes are my favourite food. mmmmmmmm... :)

vivi
moi j'aime les crêpes à la cassonade

tidjy
i luv pancakes but to many make me SICK

Denny
I like pancakes with strawberry jam!!!!!

kayley wells
i like pancakes with fresh lemon juice sugar and big lumps of syrup on top.

Taiwo The Best
i love pancakes thy are so yummy and very delicious with lemon and sugar

Bill Stevenson
I like pancakes with maple syrup, you can't beat them!

Alex P-B
try pancakes with choclate and tomate sauce! its suprising nice (well my frends dont think so, but i do)

Atman
i love pancakes with choc sauce

Emma Blount
Pancakes are one of my favourite foods!! I love them with sugar and milk! Yum Yum x

Bob Marley
sugar honey honey and sugar wid mine

Jonathan Furness
Scouts love 'em - they eat hundreds in one night - and they don't care (that much) what's on them!

sophie
I like mine with chocolate, and apple!

James Z
My fiancee makes lovely pancakes. And i'm having some tonight!! :-)

Simon
I love to flip them but they always land folded in the pan and it becomes a lump. Annoying! Jif and Sugar is the only way!

xLolenx
I love pancakes with lemon n sugar on!

James Fellowsssssss
i like pancakes with sugar, golden syrup and chocolate source! mmmmmmm

Sophie
I like pancakes with syrup and sugar and lemon!

James
I am just boring and have them with sugar and nothing else... never tried those toppings

Luke
Whatever's going, I'll eat on my cakes.

Al
Ummm.. pancakes.. they are all good!!

Erica and Gemma
We like pancakes AND we made lasagne, YESSS!

Rach
I love the pancakes my dad makes with sugar and lemon, but i hate the microwave ones!:-(

Gareth
I love pancakes best when my wife makes them but unfortunatly she's working late today

Mel
I like them all!!!!

louise murray
i like my pancakes with melted chocolate and bannanas!!!!

Jock McTavish
I like my pancakes flat.

Michael Taylor
Is it pancake day, oh well I suppose either a creperie or lime jif.

katie
i think they are yummy with lemon and sugar!

biram
i like pancakes

Vonnie
I love pancakes, however they come.

Clare Bear
Just lemon and sugar for me please!!! Takes about 3 goes to get the ideal pancake though!!!!

Mike
I like my pancakes with a smidgen of burger sauce. Nothing like a good piece of pacakes on toast either....

Charlotte, Essex
I like any pancakes as long as my best friend Lydia makes them! Savory ones are good with chicken fakita ingredients in!

emz
i love mine with sugar and butter. nothing better.

Sasha
I like pancakes but one I love the best is banoffee pancakes with chocolate spread and ice cream by Anthony Worrall Thompson

James
my favourite pancake is potato

Borbala
I eat mine with a meat "stew" baked in the oven with soure cream) in a traditional Hungarian way. It called "Hortobagyi" pancake.

Caitlin
I like my pancakes with lemon.

Kevin+Gurrcharan
We love pancake day and pancakes.

Emma
I like pancakes with mapel syrup and chocolate.

Toren
I like pancakes with chocolate,a lot of whipped cream,a bit of lemon and two spoonfuls of sugar

Nathan
I like pancakes with jam,chocolate spread and syrup.

kyle
I love them filled with strawberry sauce and lemon

Jake
I love pancakes with chocolate sauce

Darren
I like chocolate and brown sugar and lemon on my pancake.

Graeme
I like mine with lots of chocolate and and pies and chips cos Im dead fat

Jack
I love plain pancakes with sugar and lemon

Maisie
I love pancakes with lemon and sugar.

Mrs Wallis
I like cheese and onion pancakes best

TT
I like my pancakes with strawberry-,raspberry-,or blueberry-jam.Topped with whith lashes of whipped cream,Yummy!

Claffey
Butter, Strawberry Jam and whipped cream!

munkymoo
I like my pancakes with sliced banana and melted chocolate, yum yum xxx

MATT
i eat mine with cucumber and brown sauce on top

danbury park school
I think that pancakes are delicious and have salad cream and strawberrys on my pancake from michael

Stanley Grove FSU
lemon and orange with sugar, they tasted sweet and scrumptious

Pancake Monster
I like Pancakes uncooked, I just love drinking pancke mix pure. YUMMY YUMMY.

Katie
Just lemon and sugar for me - perfect

Kyle
I eat them with chocolate souce and syrup

Kazza
Thin pancakes with nothing but fresh lemon juice & fine castor sugar :o)

MarcusOwston
I Love Pancakes because I like syrp on them.

Bradley Cleary
I really enjoy pancake day because i think that pancake's are really yummy and I like toppings on like choclate ans big lumps of syrup

Danielle Hauxwell
I love pancakes beacause tha are tasty and yummy and i like flippingin the airthay are yummy in my tummy.

Sophie Barlow
I like thick pancakes with golden syrup and lemon juice. Once i threw it on my brothers head.

Amy Mudd
I like pancakes with syrup on top.

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