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Share your disappointing pancake day efforts

Television journalist Alastair Stewart poses before the annual Parliamentary Pancake Race in Westminster in London.
Television journalist Alastair Stewart poses before the annual Parliamentary Pancake Race in Westminster in London. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Shrove Tuesday is a sacred day in the UK’s pancake-eating calendar. This moveable feast was celebrated as long ago as the Middle Ages, as this important historical footage reveals.

Despite this occasion happening every year – and the recipe and process being relatively simplepeople continue to get it wrong. If you’re making pancakes today, we would love to see your underwhelming attempts.

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