It all started the Monday before Shrove Tuesday. Laura let me know that she got pancake batter so we could have pancakes for Pancake Tuesday.
Hope (with confusion): "What?"
Laura: "You know...Pancake Tuesday. Before Lent starts."
Hope: "You mean Fastnacht Tuesday? You call it pancake day?"
Laura (with confusion): "What's a Fastnacht?"
Apparently, the English tradition is to make pancakes rather than doughnuts on the Tuesday before Lent. Well, one thing was cleared up. Then we made pancakes.
They were not pancakes! There were too thin, more like a crepe. I was so confused by this point. Those were English pancakes. To clear things up, I made American pancakes the next Saturday. And a tradition was born...
I'm really thankful for this house. Laura and Joanne (who moved in three weeks ago) are both great. This morning, we had a lovely Saturday brunch of American pancakes, English strawberries, and Kenyan coffee. But the cultural mixing continues...Joanne is from South Africa and today, for the very first time, put strawberries on her pancakes ;) But neither she or I are willing to try Laura's variation of yogurt and strawberries on a pancake!
1 comment:
You should try it with yogurt; it's delicious!!! This is how I ate my oatmeal banana pancakes yesterday, topped with plain yogurt and honey, accompanied with Costa Rican coffee. Yummy!
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