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Fritter-filled Paunches: Pancake day in Reformation England
By Elly Barnett – @eleanorrbarnett On the Monday before Lent, wrote comedic poet John Taylor in 1639, a farmer returned home to his wife ‘busily making Pancakes for him and his family’. After he criticised the quality of the fare – ‘the coursenesse of the flower, the taste of the Suite [suet- fat], the thicknesse of the Batter’…
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