{"id":13414,"date":"2015-02-17T20:51:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T19:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13414"},"modified":"2015-02-17T20:51:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T19:51:39","slug":"shrove-tuesday-or-pancake-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13414","title":{"rendered":"Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Snick, snack, the pan&#8217;s hot,<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re come a shroving<br \/>\nStrike while the iron&#8217;s hot &#8211;<br \/>\nSomething&#8217;s better than nothing.<br \/>\nFlour&#8217;s cheap and lard&#8217;s dear<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s why we come a shroving here &#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<small>(Rhyme from Drayton near Abingdon quoted in May Day to Mummers &#8211; Folklore and customs in Oxfordshire.)<\/small><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150217010.jpg\" alt=\"Shrove Tuesday\" \/><br \/>\nChildren no longer beg their neighbours for ingredients for pancakes.  To help us prepare for Pancake Day, the supermarkets in Abingdon each had a little display of a ready made pancake mix &#8211; massively reduced , together with JIF Lemons and maple syrup, and even eggs and flour in some places.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150217011.jpg\" alt=\"Shrove Tuesday\" \/><br \/>\nI probably did not follow the instructions properly with the pancake mix, as I ended up with some pale sloppy pancakes that stuck to the pan. After the third attempt I gave up.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150217012.jpg\" alt=\"Shrove Tuesday\" \/><br \/>\nBut we do still have the basics: an egg, 3 oz (75g) flour, 5 fl oz (150ml) of milk and a pinch of salt.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/150217013.jpg\" alt=\"Shrove Tuesday\" \/><br \/>\nThat worked so much better, and came in under half the price of the pancake mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snick, snack, the pan&#8217;s hot, We&#8217;re come a shroving Strike while the iron&#8217;s hot &#8211; Something&#8217;s better than nothing. Flour&#8217;s cheap and lard&#8217;s dear And that&#8217;s why we come a shroving here &#8230; (Rhyme from Drayton near Abingdon quoted in May Day to Mummers &#8211; Folklore and customs in Oxfordshire.) Children no longer beg their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}