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Pancake Tuesday: How Mumbai’s Catholic community feasts on pancakes before Lent

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Updated on: 01 March,2022 11:19 AM IST  |  Mumbai
Nascimento Pinto | nascimento.pinto@mid-day.com

Most celebrations for the Catholic community come to an end today as tomorrow, Ash Wednesday, marks the start of 40 days of Lent, which is spent fasting and in prayer, before Easter. To mark the start of the period, members from the community feast on sweet pancakes on what is popularly called ‘Pancake Tuesday’

Pancake Tuesday: How Mumbai’s Catholic community feasts on pancakes before Lent

Since Melitta Fernandes is an East Indian, she uses sugar instead of black jaggery for the preparation. Photo: Melitta Fernandes

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