Friday, 10 April 2009
Happy Easter
Saturday, 4 April 2009
Easter
As Easter is approaching us, we would like to aquaint you with Polish traditions connected with this holiday. Although some of them may seem familiar to you, we hope you will find here something extraordinary which will interest you.
Preparations
- eggs' painting
- cress's planting
- cooking and tidying up
Firstly we start the celebration on the last Sunday of the Lent (which is tomorrow) when whole families flock to churches in order to take part in big processinos during which colourful palms are blessed.
After three days during which we reminisce the Last Supper ( on Maunty Thursday), Passion and Death ( on Good Friday) and blees food ( on Holy Saturday), we celebrate the Resurrection. We usually spend this day among family. One of the traditions involves receiving presents which are thought to be brought by the Easter Hare.
The most popular dishes that you can meet on the Easter table are: eggs, white sausages, pork loin, "żurek" ( soup which has already been decribed here on the blog) and plenty of Easter cakes e.g. "mazurek", "babka"and "keks" .
"Eggs' battle"It's the next extraordinary tradition which children are particularly keen on. In this game you have to smash the egg of your enemy with your own egg taking advantage of the strength of its shell:) But if your egg is smashed, you have to eat it.
"Śmigus dyngus" We strongly believe that Easter Monday is the most fascinating because we can organize water fights during which we pour water onto each other. That's why we hope that the weather will enable us to enjoy it.
So at the end we'd like to wish you rich Hare, tasty eggs, wet Easter Monday and happily spent time with your family.
Made by: Karolina, Kamila, Agnieszka
