Darina Allen: It's time for a pancake party

SHROVE Tuesday is just around the corner again — a perfect excuse to have a pancake party. What fun that is. 
Darina Allen: It's time for a pancake party
Sat, 30 Jan, 2016 - 00:00
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Darina Allen

Darina Allen is co-founder of the Ballymaloe Cookery School and more recently the Ballymaloe Organic Farm School in Shanagarry, East Cork.

The tiny tots love it, teens have fun and the ‘wrinklies’ reminisce about pancakes in the past.

So where did the custom come from? The name Shrove Tuesday originally came from the word Shrive meaning to absolve.

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