Shrove Tuesday

It's Pancake day and the Darnaway Chef has razzled up delights that I've shot and made into a collage. 
And, for the unenlightened :)
"Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of fasting and on Shrove Tuesday, Anglo-Saxon Christians went to confession and were “shriven” (absolved from their sins) -  a bell would be rung to call people to confession. This came to be called the “Pancake Bell” and is still rung today."   Well I never !

And why pancakes ?  
"Pancakes are associated with Shrove Tuesday, the day preceding Lent, because they are a way to use up rich foods such as eggs, milk, and sugar, before the fasting season of the 40 days of Lent."
So, now you know!