Pancake day
Description:
The first pancake festival took place in 1950. But in the English town of Albee, it has been held for 500 years.
It began with the fact that once during Lent, one of the townspeople secretly frying pancakes in her kitchen. Suddenly a bell rang. The poor mistress was so frightened that, forgetting everything in the world, she rushed to church. Right with a frying pan in his hands and curling pancakes on it. It was in 1445.
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Since then, citizens arrange an annual race with pancakes - women, certainly in dresses and aprons, must run a certain distance, tossing a pancake in a pan.
A similar tradition exists at Westminster School in London - a pancake baked with horse hair so that it does not fall apart is tossed in a pan, and then the students try to grab a bigger piece.
So in Albee and the Liberal, women run through the streets every year with pans in their hands, flipping pancakes on the run. And the winner’s reward is the bell ringer’s kiss, honor and respect.
Well, pancakes that did not fall from the pans during the races, then amicably eaten by the audience.
For notes: in the West, thick pancakes are called pancakes, in Russian it is usually translated as pancakes. And thin pancakes are crepes.
