Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday.
The 40 days leading up to Easter are called Lent, and are known as a time of fasting.
Shrove Tuesday was the last chance to use up eggs and remaining ingredients beforehand.
On Shrove Tuesday, Anglo-Saxon Christians went to confessions and were absolved from their sins, or “shriven”.
A bell would be rung to call people to confession, which was known as the “Pancake Bell” and is still used today.
Shrove Tuesday always falls 47 days before Easter Sunday, so the date varies from year to year and falls between February 3 and March 9.
