7 facts we bet you didn't know about Pancake Day

The first pancake recipe appeared in an English cookbook in the 15th century.

The largest pancake ever made and flipped measured 15m wide, 2.5cm deep and weighed 3 tonnes.

The ‘shrove’ in ‘Shrove Tuesday’ is the past tense of the verb to shrive, meaning to confess or to impose a penance.

Pancakes were originally made as a way of using up all the leftover fatty and rich foods before Lent began on Ash Wednesday - but obviously

In France, it is tradition to make a wish while the pancake is being tossed, holding a coin in the other hand.

Around 52 million eggs are used in the UK on Pancake Day, which is 22 million more than usual.

In Iceland people celebrate Sprengidagur or The Day of Bursting. While in France and in parts of the US Pancake Day is called Mardi Gras which means Fat Tuesday.