Our favorite pancake festival - Shrovetide - has a very ancient history. This is now a fun, bumpy, wild holiday, which we are, of course, happy about. And in ancient times, Maslenaya week, by the way, then it was called Cheese Week, was a preparation for a very severe test - fasting. Palestinian monks spent almost the entire forty-day period (fasting) before Easter alone, dispersing to deserted places. Naturally, before such a test, you need to accumulate strength. And in this cheese week (week of Shrovetide), the monks were allowed to eat milk, cottage cheese, eggs all week...