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What Pancake Day in Oxfordshire looked like throughout the years


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Staff at Old Swan Hotel made sure they were in peak form before they started running whilst tossing their pancakes, ready for the race, 1995.
THIS week people across the county tucked into stacks of pancakes and had a flipping good time to celebrate Shrove Tuesday.
And it would seem that pancakes existed along time before pancake racing was a thing, in fact a long time before even the idea of brunch, or indeed meal times as a concept itself.
Analysis of starch grains on 30,000-year-old grinding tools suggests that Stone Age cooks were making flour out of cattails (wetland plants) and ferns – which, researchers guess, was likely mixed with water and baked on a hot, possibly greased, rock. ....

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