Ryedale Folk Museum

Pancakes have been a delicious part of our lives for a very long time, with pancakes believed to being traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday for more than 1,000 years! Pancakes have a long history and have developed in taste in this time, it is even believed that cooks would often use fresh snow as it contained ammonia to help the pancakes come out soft and fluffy! William Shakespeare loved pancakes so much, that he often mentioned pancakes during his plays! But why not try a slightly different recipe this year with one of our special recipes! Let us know what you think!

If you fancy cooking some traditional food after a visit to Ryedale Folk Museum, then the book Ryedale Recipes by Peter Brears is ideal. There was plenty of food around today, Kevin Sims made a ham mushroom and pea pie with jacket spuds in the White Cottage, whilst Peter was busy in Stang End with chicken, bread cheese and vegetables. In the Tudor Crofter's cottage Emma Hirst was cooking small mint pancakes, a joint of bacon and vegetable stew. As yesterday, all was made to a very good standard. Jonathan Severs