{"id":20040,"date":"2018-02-13T22:36:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20040"},"modified":"2018-02-13T22:36:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:36:56","slug":"shrove-tuesday-fritters-and-flinging-at-cocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20040","title":{"rendered":"Shrove Tuesday Fritters and Flinging at Cocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Shrove” is the past tense of “shrive” which the Collins Dictionary defines as “to confess one’s sins to a priest in order to obtain sacramental forgiveness”. When I searched for references to Shrove Tuesday in, and near, Abingdon I found no references to confession but did find the following…<\/p>\n

1. Pancakes<\/strong>
\n\"Shrove
\nSnick, snack, the pan\u2019s hot,
\nWe\u2019re come a shroving
\nStrike while the iron\u2019s hot –
\nSomething\u2019s better than nothing.
\nFlour\u2019s cheap and lard\u2019s dear
\nAnd that\u2019s why we come a shroving here \u2026
\n(Rhyme from Drayton near Abingdon quoted in May Day to Mummers)<\/p>\n

2. Throwing Sticks at Cockerels<\/strong>
\n\"Shrove
\nIn Abingdon Museum there is the notice about Shrove Tuesday cockerel throwing – an old tradition abolished in 1805.<\/p>\n

Samuel Pepys describes both these traditions in one short paragraph on\u00a0Shrove Tuesday 1661<\/a>. “Back to Mrs. Turner\u2019s, where several friends … dined. Very merry and the best fritters that ever I eat in my life. After that looked out at window; saw the flinging at cocks.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Pepy’s continues “I found my Valentine with my wife … Then I sat and talked with my Valentine and my wife a good while, and then saw her home.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It is Valentine’s Day tomorrow, and Ash Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Shrove” is the past tense of “shrive” which the Collins Dictionary defines as “to confess one’s sins to a priest in order to obtain sacramental forgiveness”. When I searched for references to Shrove Tuesday in, and near, Abingdon I found no references to confession but did find the following… 1. Pancakes Snick, snack, the pan\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20040","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=20040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}