{"id":3069,"date":"2026-02-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:07:07","slug":"february-16th-lardy-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/february-16th-lardy-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Thursday Last Thursday before Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"754\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Polish_paczki.jpg\" alt=\"plate of doughnuts called p\u0105czki for  t\u0142usty czwartek (Fat Thursday)\" class=\"wp-image-3070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Polish_paczki.jpg 754w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Polish_paczki-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A plate of Polish <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P%C4%85czki\">p\u0105czki<\/a> for  <em>t\u0142usty czwartek<\/em> (Fat Thursday)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fat Thursday<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is El Jueves Lardero in Spain, Gioved\u00ec grasso in Italy, Weiberfastnach in the Rhineland, T\u0142usty Czwartek (Fat Thursday) in Poland and Tsiknopempti in Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please read out that sentence loud, attempting the accents because it&#8217;s very therapeutic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fat Thursday is the last Thursday before Lent.  It is the first day of the Carnival season which reaches a climax on Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday. This is the day before Ash Wednesday, when the 40 days of fasting before Easter begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Poland, the tradition is to eat <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P%C4%85czki\">p\u0105czki<\/a> which we call doughnuts and the Germans call Berliners. I remember when President Kennedy made a famous speech in Berlin and said &#8216;Ich bin ein Berliner&#8217;. He was cheered to the echo but was actually saying &#8216;I am a doughnut! Doughnuts traditionally should be made with red jam. But now people can use cream, or almost any sort of sugary nonsense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"796356\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #796356;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/zofias-doughnuts-771x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10773 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/zofias-doughnuts-771x1024.webp 771w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/zofias-doughnuts-226x300.webp 226w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/zofias-doughnuts-768x1020.webp 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/zofias-doughnuts-1157x1536.webp 1157w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/zofias-doughnuts-1320x1753.webp 1320w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/zofias-doughnuts.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Zofia&#8217;s Doughnuts (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P%C4%85czki\">p\u0105czki<\/a>) all cooked on Feb 12th 2026. Fat Friday T\u0142usty Czwartek. Zofia makes them for a whole host of relatives and neighbours.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain is more savoury on Greasy Thursday, where tortilla are eaten. They also eat sausages, bacon, and pork. In Catalonia, they eat <em>tortilla<\/em> with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Botifarra\">butifarra<\/a><\/em>.(which are sausages in the Roman tradition). Here is a recipe for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatbritishchefs.com\/recipes\/butifarra-with-caramelised-onions-recipe\"> butifarra<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Italy <em>gioved\u00ec grasso<\/em> (Fat Thursday) is when:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>&#8220;the fooling and the mumming, the dancing, shrieking, and screaming would be at its height.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is recorded by the English writer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marie_Corelli\">Marie Corelli<\/a> in her book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vendetta!\">Vendetta<\/a><\/em> (1886). Look at these sites for more on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fat_Thursday\">Fat Thursday<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secrettenerife.co.uk\/2019\/02\/el-jueves-lardero-lardy-thursday.html\">El Jueves Lardero<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Lardy Thursday?  Butter Week &amp; Lardy Cake<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are indications that the week before Shrove Tuesday, in the Anglo Saxon period, was one of merriment and feasting. Eating the things that were not allowed in Lent. So in Old English this week is Cheese Week or Butter Week, and there was a Cheesefare Sunday. (&#8216;Winters in the World&#8217; by Eleanor Parker).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I cannot find any references to traditions of a fat Thursday or a Lardy Thursday in the UK. But we do have the fabulous Lardy Cake. It is a cake that drips with sugar and lard (pig fat).  It is one of my very favourite cakes. The main ingredients are rendered <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lard\">lard<\/a>, flour, sugar, spices, currants and raisins. I was brought up on Lardy Cake, Chelsea Buns, Spotted Dick, and Sticky Willies (iced buns). Every day was Fat Thursday!  I am surprised I wasn&#8217;t an overweight child!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is by no means a countrywide cake. My own theory is that it was a delicacy of the West Saxons. And I fondly imagine King Alfred tending to the Lardy Cake when musing about defeating the Vikings. I have bought lardy cake in Woking and Guildford in Surrey. There is a great Lardy Cake to be eaten in the centre of Winchester (Alfred&#8217;s Capital). Along the Thames Valley in Reading, but best were sold in Cornmarket in Oxford, in, the since closed, Woolworths. These are all in areas controlled by Wessex in the 9th Century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Worcester Dripping Cake<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When lecturing at Worcester I found a variant of it which is called Worcester Dripping Cake. Worcester is in the Kingdom of Mercia. Dripping is melted fat, often from Beef.  Many Londoners were brought up on Bread and Dripping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lardy_cake\">Wikipedia<\/a> says Lardy Cake is from: &#8216;southern counties of England, including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sussex\">Sussex<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surrey\">Surrey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hampshire\">Hampshire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berkshire\">Berkshire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wiltshire\">Wiltshire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorset\">Dorset<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloucestershire\">Gloucestershire<\/a>.&#8217; But I have never found it myself around Stonehenge, or in Dorchester, nor in the Cotswolds. So I would say Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire are the lardy cake heartlands. It is said to have been originally for special occasions, so maybe there once was a Lardy Thursday tradition. It feels like there should be one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lardy_cake_from_The_Indulgent_Baker_Caversham_UK_-_20150711-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lardy_cake_from_The_Indulgent_Baker_Caversham_UK_-_20150711-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lardy_cake_from_The_Indulgent_Baker_Caversham_UK_-_20150711-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lardy_cake_from_The_Indulgent_Baker_Caversham_UK_-_20150711.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A slice of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/lardy_cake\">lardy cake<\/a> from The Indulgent Baker at 32d Church Street, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caversham,_Berkshire\">Caversham<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reading,_Berkshire\">Reading<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berkshire\">Berkshire<\/a>, England, UK.Photo Wikipedia.<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Smuconlaw\">Smuconlaw<\/a> &#8211;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here, courtesy of the BBC and the handsome (but possibly, dare I say it, a little &#8216;lardy&#8217;) Paul Hollywood of Bake-off fame, is a recipe for Lardy Cake. Please make it and feel that wonderful English Pudding feeling of a lead weight in your stomach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/food\/recipes\/lardy_cake_80839\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/food\/recipes\/lardy_cake_80839<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recipe says &#8216;<em>This recipe has a generous amount of dried fruit in a rich dough that\u2019s lighter and less sweet than most shop-bought lardy cakes<\/em>&#8216;. So, it&#8217;s not going to be entirely authentic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did try making Lardy cake and I put it in that category of food which is best left for the professionals to do, along with Croissants and Chelsea Buns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following posting this page on Facebook,  Heike Herbert posted this response concerning &#8216;Women&#8217;s Fast Night on February 8th in Cologne or Koln:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"581\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-08-12.58.34.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Facebook post about Women's Fast night in Cologne on 8th February.\" class=\"wp-image-4568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-08-12.58.34.png 581w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-08-12.58.34-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aristotelis Psitos emailed me to say that the Greek Orthodox &#8216;Fat Thursday&#8217; is on a different date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Making Lardy Cake<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After last year&#8217;s post I decided to try to bake Lardy Cake .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4032\" height=\"2268\" data-id=\"6686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2025-02-27-20.37.45.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6686\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"6678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2025-02-27-20.37.49-1-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6678\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4032\" height=\"2268\" data-id=\"6688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2025-02-27-20.57.11.jpg\" alt=\"lardy cake being made\" class=\"wp-image-6688\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">lardy cake being made<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2268\" height=\"4032\" data-id=\"6689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2025-02-27-21.15.45.jpg\" alt=\"lardy cake being made\" class=\"wp-image-6689\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2268\" height=\"4032\" data-id=\"6690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2025-02-27-22.09.36.jpg\" alt=\"lardy cake  \" class=\"wp-image-6690\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lady Cake overcooked!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4032\" height=\"2268\" data-id=\"6691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2025-02-28-07.06.36.jpg\" alt=\"lardy cake being made\" class=\"wp-image-6691\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Slice of Lardy Cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok, so my first error was pretty fundamental.I forget to put the sugar in! Secondly, I was distracted so did not put the timer on. It was therefore a little overcooked, but not disastrously. I also used Wholemeal flour rather than Strong White flour, which Paul Hollywood suggested. I sprinkled caster sugar on it.  I&#8217;ve had about 4 slices, last night and this morning.   I have now washed the utensils 4 times, and they are still covered in lard! But at least it&#8217;s less fat ingested. Verdict: Quite Good. To be honest, it is more like a fruit bread than a lardy cake. And next time, I&#8217;ll buy it rather than make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Published 2024, revised 2025, Making Lardy Cake moved from February 27th 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fat Thursday Today is El Jueves Lardero in Spain, Gioved\u00ec grasso in Italy, Weiberfastnach in the Rhineland, T\u0142usty Czwartek (Fat Thursday) in Poland and Tsiknopempti in Greece. Please read out that sentence loud, attempting the accents because it&#8217;s very therapeutic! 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