Kitchen items can be antique treasures

Shrove Tuesday is always the day before the first day of Lent – which is known as Ash Wednesday.

This year Pancake Day falls on Tuesday, February 28, which is next week, so in readiness I thought I’d feature some general household objects you would find in your kitchen.

Basic they may be, but essential in the kitchen, especially on a day like Pancake Day!

These scales would be a great retro way of weighing out your flour and are on sale for £18.

The word Shrove derives from the word shrive, which means to “free yourself from sin”, and the idea behind the tradition is that you use up all the food in the house before the beginning of Lent.

Pancakes are a good way of using up eggs, flour and milk all in one meal.