Candlemas - The Crepes Day
By Anna
@LadyDuck (471294)
Switzerland
February 2, 2021 8:13am CST
Today we celebrate the Catholic holiday of Candlemas. The superstition is more or less the same as Groundhog Day.
Anyway, we all know that winter is here to stay for many more days.
To celebrate Candlemas, we make crêpes, savory or sweet, it does not matter.
Students in France play the crepes games.
To play the game, you get a pile of crepe and write on paper plates the name of each student.
Then, you stand on a table (or a chair), a few feet from them, and throw the crepes.
The students must catch the crepes. The winner is the one who catches the crepe in the center of the plate.
Once the game is over, all the students eat the crepes, the winner gets an extra topping and honorable mention.
Any special tradition on this 2nd day of February?
The photo is mine - My crêpes Suzette.
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
2 Feb 21
I've never heard of your holiday. It sounds like fun. 
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
2 Feb 21
@LadyDuck Oh, gotcha. Thank you for telling me. I appreciate that.
Pretty and I have made crepes before. They were okay.
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
2 Feb 21
@DaddyEvil I like to make savory crêpes, stuffed with mushrooms, ham and white sauce are my favorite.
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. Do you use a special pan? I love these traditions that include food 
!@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
4 Feb 21
I use the flat pan that I place on the stove. The temperature of the pan is important. To make them thin you have to grease the pan, heat, pour a little quantity of dough in the pan and quickly spread over the bottom. After a few trials it is not really difficult. We both like crêpes, both sweet and savory.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Feb 21
No we never celebrated it in this way but I am aware it is the last day of the Christmas season. I should take down my Christmas trees but I don't think I will. lol
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
2 Feb 21
@LadyDuck yes I know that is why it ends the Christmas season.
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
2 Feb 21
@BelleStarr We end Christmas season with the Epiphany on January 6th.
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@snowy22315 (180398)
• United States
2 Feb 21
I have heard of Candlemas, but I never knew what it was. Thanks! I guess people like to entertain themselves with traditions during the cold months.
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@snowy22315 (180398)
• United States
2 Feb 21
@LadyDuck The sun is trying to come out here, but it is petty cold. I want the snow to start melting a little, but it might not be too much today.
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
2 Feb 21
@snowy22315 It stayed cold despite the sun, but no rain at least.
@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
3 Feb 21
Those crepes look delicious. Didn’t know about this tradition, neat to have learned :)
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
3 Feb 21
@LadyDuck do you have any filling in yours?
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
4 Feb 21
@infatuatedbby Not in those I made, as they were Crêpes Suzettes. You prepare the crêpes first, than you make a sauce with orange juice, sugar, heat on the stove, add the crêpes, pour orange liquor and flame the crêpes.
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
2 Feb 21
@wolfgirl569 This time I am glad they were wrong.
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@wolfgirl569 (105851)
• Marion, Ohio
2 Feb 21
@LadyDuck We have sun too. Glad they were wrong
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
2 Feb 21
I love crepes and used to own a credit pan to make my own when I was in my twenties.
When I was in school we visited Montreal and one restaurant was a house of crepes. Yum! Those were the days. I had some in the eighties at a mall in Detroit but none since.
I didn't realize candlemas was similar to groundhogs day.
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
3 Feb 21
I have a flat pan to make crêpes, I bought it many years ago in France. I often make crepes at home, but sweet and savory.
Candlemas is the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, only the superstition about the weather is similar to groundhog day.
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
3 Feb 21
@MarshaMusselman Epiphany is the 6th of January, the celebration of the visit of the 3 wise kings to Jesus. Candlemas is "circumcision", the day Jesus was presented at the temple. Candlemas is also called Feast of the Presentation or Purification.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
3 Feb 21
@LadyDuck I didn't know there was a superstition about the weather over there to which just happens to fall on the same day as here.
I was thinking we used to have a celebration for when Jesus was presented too but I don't recall if it was called that or a different name. I thought at first epiphany but see that's in January not this month.
I've not been a catholic since I was 26 so I don't remember all of the celebratory days.
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@DeborahDiane (40288)
• Laguna Woods, California
1 Apr 21
@LadyDuck - I see I have missed your last few posts, so I will catch up this evening. I love crepes. We just discovered a new crepe restaurant with outdoor seating just two blocks from our church, and my husband and I ate there after the Palm Sunday service. It was wonderful!
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
2 Apr 21
@DeborahDiane My husband loves stuffed crêpes this is something I often do on Sundays for our brunch. I also like mushrooms and ham or simply cheese.
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@DeborahDiane (40288)
• Laguna Woods, California
1 Apr 21
@LadyDuck - Shrimp stuffed crepes sound wonderful. I was pleased to discover this crepe restaurant so near our church. We will go again ... but not on Easter morning, when it is likely to be crowded.
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@sprite1950 (30452)
• Corsham, England
3 Nov 21
I don't think we have these traditions in the UK. I'm not catholic but my friend's family is and I have never heard them talk of either of these.
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@sprite1950 (30452)
• Corsham, England
3 Nov 21
@LadyDuck It is a nice tradition. Anyone could do it if they wanted no matter where they came from.
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
3 Nov 21
@sprite1950 I like crepes, no matter if savory or sweet. I think it's a nice tradition.
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@jobelbojel (35461)
• Philippines
8 Feb 21
I like crepes and would like to join the game so that I can have my crepes. That sounds exciting rather than getting it in the store.
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@jobelbojel (35461)
• Philippines
15 Feb 21
@LadyDuck I never make my own crepes. I go to the mall to buy.
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
15 Feb 21
@jobelbojel I never buy and I always make my crepes, if you knew how much better home made crepes are. Those you buy are "chewy".
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My nephew’s birthday falls on February 2, which is Groundhog’s day here.
@HannahKusKus (4025)
• Semarang, Indonesia
7 Feb 21
Happy Candlemas. It's great to be able to celebrate by making your favorite food. The family will love it. Crepes are a light snack but make you want more
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
7 Feb 21
@HannahKusKus I do not think that they can be considered a snack.
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@HannahKusKus (4025)
• Semarang, Indonesia
7 Feb 21
@LadyDuck okay. Thanks a lot for the information. Maybe I got wrong in thinking it is a snack
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