THE pancakes were flat, but the mood was anything but as a team of Longford Uniting Church cooks flipped their way through about 400 pancakes on Tuesday.
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The church's annual Pancake Day fundraiser proved to be as popular as ever as businesses across the town received pre-ordered shipments of the best variety - freshly made pancakes.
With all proceeds going to the Helping Hand Association, church secretary Martha Tymms prepared the mixture from 7am before the kitchen team arrived at 8.30am to get the production line under way.
"At 10 o'clock we had 70 pancakes ordered and at 10.30 we had 90 pancakes that had to be ready to go out so it's all pressurised," she said.
"We had an order for 40 pancakes at the animal laboratory and there's a lot of workers out there, so they had an order for 40 and they were terribly excited."
Mrs Tymms said Helping Hand played a crucial role in the Northern Midlands area, supplying essential items to those in need.
"Helping Hand covers Perth, Longford, Cressy, up as far as Poatina and out as far as Bishopsbourne so it's a fairly big geographical area," she said.
"We have a system where people can just walk into the front room and help themselves to fruit and vegetables and bread products."