This year it falls on Tuesday February 9.
What is the history of Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday?
Pancake Day is widely known as the day we all whip up our own batter mix or head out to the supermarkets and buy a pre-made one so that we can enjoy eating pancakes.
It’s traditionally a feasting day as it is the day before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, when many people choose to give something up for 40 days.
Eating pancakes on this day also comes from a tradition of using up any rich foods such as eggs and fats in your house before Lent and fasting begins, and these are both perfect ingredients for pancakes.
The ingredients for pancakes are said to symbolise four points of significance at Easter and Springtime of the year.
Eggs signify creation, flour is said to be the staff of life, salt is for wholesomeness and milk symbolises purity.
Shrove Tuesday dates back many years to Anglo-Saxon times when Christians would go to confession and were ‘shriven’ (acquitted from their sins).
A bell would be rung to call people to confession and this came to be known as the Pancake Bell.