The Pancake Bell

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab (BPAL) Limited Edition Perfume Oil (Limited)

On the morning of Shrove Tuesday the whole kingdom is quiet, but by the time the clock strikes eleven, there is a Bell rung, call’d the Pancake Bell, the sound whereof makes thousands of people distracted, and forgetful either of manners or humanities. Then there is a thing cal’d wheaten flower, which the Cookes doe mingle with water, Egges, Spice and other tragical magical enchantments, and then they put it by little and little into a Frying pan of boiling Suet, where it make a dismal hissing, until at the last by the skill of the Cookes, it is transformed into the forme of a flap-jack, which in our translation is call’d a Pancake which the ignorant people doe devour very greedily.

– John Taylor’s Jack a Lent (1620)

Honey ale, roasted nuts, gingerbread, daryole, and sweet cakes.

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