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Fun Facts For Pancake Day

Päncäke Day Fun facts for Brought to you by ASDA THE IDEA OF EATING PANCAKES ON SHROVE TUESDAY IS MORE THAN 1,000 YEARS OLD... WHERE FAMILIES USE UP RICH & PLEASURABLE FOODS BEFORE LENT. The largest pancake ever made and flipped measured 15.01m wide, 2.5cm deep, weighing 3 tonnes. It occurred in Rochdale in 1994. The record for tossing a pancake the most times in 2 minutes belongs to Dean Gould who flipped one an impressive 424 times. Our pancake mix to feed four people is made from... Batter Blaster holds the record for making the most pancakes in eight hours, cooking up a massive 76,382 at Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta, USA, in May 2009. 2 large eggs Shrove Tuesday falls between 22nd February and 9th March, starting the 40 days of Lent. Milk 350ml milk Flour The average Briton eats 2 pancakes on Shrove Tuesday totalling 117 million using, up a 125g plain flour staggering 52 million eggs. The second side of a pancake takes half the amount of time to cook as the first. Shrive "Shrove' stems from the old English word 'shrive', meaning 'confess all sins'. Russia's Andrei Smirnov holds the unofficial record for eating the most pancakes, scoffing 73 in just one hour. www.asda.com/recipes

Fun Facts For Pancake Day

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Did you know that the word ‘Shrove’ stems from the word ‘shrive’ which means ‘confess all sins’? And apparently we eat a staggering 117 million pancakes on a Shrove Tuesday in the UK.

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