IN CELEBRATION of Shrove Tuesday, some Christians (and many indulgent atheists) cook pancakes. The tradition derives from the practice of using up all the fat in the cupboard in a great binge, before the 40-day fast of Lent began. To honour this we have constructed a comparison of the costs of pancake ingredients across the world from data compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, our sister company. Delia Smith, a British cookery writer, recommends the use of 110g of sifted flour, 2 eggs, 200ml of milk and 50g of butter to make 12-15 pancakes. Roughly scaling this up by ten shows how expensive a generous pancake party (consisting of around 130 pancakes) might be. The data are all from cities, and so should be taken with a pinch of sugar and a squeeze of lemon.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/02/daily-chart-14
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