Pancake by Ken Albala
Author:Ken Albala
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reaktion Books
The worldâs oldest pancake race, in the village of Olney, Buckinghamshire.
Not everyone always took all this merry prankishness in good stride, however. The more puritanical saw it as a remnant of a pagan past never properly purified by the Catholic church, and as potentially subversive in more than a symbolic way. Many sought to ban such celebrations in the 16th and 17th centuries. As the following quote suggests, these celebrations were seen as a kind of illicit magic. The following satirical diatribe levelled at Shrove Tuesday celebrations appears in the 1620 Jack a Lent, His Beginning and Entertainment by the satirist John Taylor, best known as the Water Poet. Incidentally, the description of bubbling suet reminds us that the pancake at this time, at least in Taylorâs description, is a crisp fritter rather than a floppy cake:
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