Monthly Archives: February 2018

All’s Well that Ends Well As fit as…as a pancake for Shrove-Tuesday,*   PANCAKE DAY is another name for Shrove Tuesday, from the custom of eating pancakes on this day, still generally observed. A writer in the “Gentleman’s Magazine, 1790,” says, that “Shrive is an old Saxon word, of which shrove is a corruption, and signifies confession. HenceContinue reading “All’s Well that Ends Well……Pancake Day!”