A special movie and pancake morning for Shrove Tuesday will be held on Tuesday, February 13.
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The tradition of Shrove Tuesday is the Church’s Feast Day immediately before Ash Wednesday which marks the start of Lent.
Christians were required to give up certain foods for Lent and to use up all of their stocks of eggs, fats and milk in the house, these were all put together with flour to make pancakes.
Flour was regarded as the main stay of the human diet, salt for wholesomeness and milk for purity. So there you have the story. The Film Society will be hosting for either savoury or sweet pancakes together with a classic movie, ‘The Pied Piper’ (1942, G) starring Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowell, Otto Preminger, Anne Baxter and Peggy Ann Garner.
This is an entertaining war-time film scripted by Nunnally Johnson from a Nevil Shute novel.
It will screen on Tuesday, February 13 at 10.30am.
