Its Shrove Tuesday :



BASIC PANCAKES

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Ingredients:
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2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt (very important)
1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs (or equivalent egg beaters)
2 tblsp oil
1 cup milk


Instructions:

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Sift dry ingredients in bowl and stir in liquid ingredients
with wire whisk until mixed. Do not beat. Heat griddle until water dropped from your hand bounces around.
Drop about 1/2 ladle/1 large mixing spoon for each pancake. Cook until
bubbled all over the top and brown on bottom. Flip, cook until brown on
other side. Keep you griddle very hot at all times.

Burners work as well as griddles

Shrove Tuesday is also called Carnival ( farewell to the flesh in latin) and Fat Tuesday . This is meant to remind us of pleasure before the 40 days of solemnity . Why pancakes ? Well Lent is a time of abstinence, traditionally of meat, fat, eggs and dairy products. So we got everything out of the kitchen . Some of this has practical meanings , food is not good stored in the midst of winter and often cattle and chickens are not very productive. Vatican two has changed this and made absetince ( or small meals ) on weekdays and fasting ( one meal no meat ) on fridays .





How am i restructuring my life for lent ? How am i finding my way out of the Garden ? Its a little more abstract then giving up daily pleasures . I want to be a happier person . I want to give up my knee jerk cynicism , my beilef that the whole world is lying to me , my belief that humanity is stupid and vain unless proven otherwise. I am going to treat every man , woman and child who comes in contact with me as a person of worth including myself.