The Maslenitsa festival in 2014 will be held from February 24 to March 2. Therefore, interest in pancakes these days will be justified. All seven days of Shrovetide have their own meaning, carry a certain symbol.
Monday - "meeting" - they bake the first pancake and treat the poor. Thus, the remembrance of the departed takes place.
Tuesday - "bride" - young people ride down the hills. Pancakes are fed to each other.
Wednesday - "mother-in-law's day" - the son-in-law invited to the mother-in-law again treats himself to pancakes.
On Thursday - "revelry" - street competitions, fistfights are held. This day will not be complete without pancakes.
On the fifth day of the week, the mother-in-law visits the house of her son-in-law, "the mother-in-law of the gathering."
On Saturday, women invite their husband's sisters to their home, present them with gifts. The day is called “sister-in-law's gatherings”.
The last day of the holiday week is the "Forgiven Day". On this day, people sincerely ask each other for forgiveness. Bonfires are burned, old things are thrown there, a scarecrow and the remains of pancakes.
Thus, the people say goodbye to winter, they see it off, they call it spring.
Pancakes these days are the main food on the table, a symbol of the sun, they are not replaced with other pastries. They are prepared in a variety of ways, thin openwork, with kefir, with yeast. With pumpkin, apples and other fillings. Naturally, pancakes are not served without oil.
