How many pancakes did you eat at the BISC Pancake Party on Tuesday 16 February 2010? Wonderful weren’t they. There were all manner of savoury delicacies that went into the first course. It included beef fillings, chicken fillings, a delicious mushroom filling and homemade bake beans with side salads to ‘encourage healthy living’. The sweet fillings for the second course were out of this world and we were encouraged to choose our own combination using apple mouse, chocolate sauce, bananas, caramel sauce and mush mallows. You could even make your own pancake under strict supervision. From my observations it looked like a lot of fun.
The team from Nailsea who provided the food for the evening were really wonderful and professional. If you remember from the talk, Pancake Tuesday is a tradition that goes back to medieval England or even before that. Pancake Day falls on the day before the beginning of what is known as Lent in the church calendar and Lent leads up to Easter.
The time of Lent was a time of simplicity and reflection and most of society during medieval times ate bland basic food. Lent begins on the Wednesday after Pancake Tuesday, called Ash Wednesday. So in order to use up their remaining food stock and not let it go to waste, the medieval Christian society came up with the concept of a Pancake Party.
Well we certainly ate all our pancakes on Tuesday. BISC was a full house and the aroma from the kitchen was mouth watering. I was hoping for a second serving of the first course, unfortunately this did not materialise, so I went for the sweet that was pancake with an apple filling. I did notice that a number of New Year’s resolutions about trying to lose weight were broken on pancake night.
I hope you really enjoyed your Pancake Party particularly if it was your first one.
Keep rocking and rolling folks,this is Dr Chill signing off. I hope to see you at our creams teas and lunches. You will not be disappointed!!
