Welcome to Celtnet's Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday) Recipes Page — This page details the various recipes used all over the world to celebrate Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday, the last day before Lent in the Christian calendar. Shrove Tuesday was the last day where regular eating was possible before the fasting period of lent. As a result, surpluses of eggs, fat and flour (or any rich foods) were used up on this day. This led to celebrations on Shrove Tuesday, which in the UK is celebrated as Pancake Day.

Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake Day) is the final day of Shrovetide, marking the end of pre-Lent. Lent begins the following day with Ash Wednesday. Shrove Tuesday is observed in many Christian countries through participating in confession; the ritual burning of the previous year's Holy Week palms; finalising one's Lenten sacrifice; as well as eating pancakes and other sweets.

As this is the last day of the Christian liturgical season historically known as Carnival or Shrovetide, before the penitential season of Lent, related popular practices, such as indulging in food that one might give up as their Lenten sacrifice for the upcoming forty days, are associated with Shrove Tuesday celebrations. The term Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", referring to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season, which begins on Ash Wednesday. In those Christian countries where the day is called Mardi Gras or a translation thereof, it is a carnival day, the last day of "fat eating" or "gorging" before the fasting period of Lent.

Below is a brief history of Shrove Tuesday as well as of the various foods used to celebrate this day around the world. There is also a list of links for recipes typically used to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, beginning with a listing of various pancakes.

This is a continuation of the recipes listings for Shrove Tuesday (the page in fact). With over 250 recipes in total, the recipes have had to be broken down into a number of individual pages, which you can scroll through below. If you would like to learn a little more about Shrove Tuesday itself and the cookery traditions associated with it, then please go to the first listing page for these Pancake/Shrove Tuesday recipes for the main information page. Here you will get just a list of the additional Shrove Tuesday recipes available on this site.