Easter in Poland

Easter is the most important Christian holiday. In Poland most people ale Catholics and they celebrate Easter. Before this holiday we tidy our flats, do the shopping, bake cakes, make salads, cook eggs and buy ham. The Ash Wednesday starts forty days of Lent.

The celebration of Easter is preceded by Holy Week, which begins with Palm Sunday- the day when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and people greeted Him with palm branches. The Holy Thursday is the day which commemorates the Last supper. The Good Friday commemorates the death of Jesus on the cross. We don't eat meat that day.

The next day is Holy Saturday, the day when Christ was laid in the tomb. On this day people prepare the basket which contains tradicional food, first of all: eggs which are painted in different colours and patterns, bread (in memory of Jesus), salt (it saves us from sins), pepper, butter, sausage, horseradish, and sugar lamb (they resamble a lamb). Next, they go to church and there priest blesses the basket. 

The central day of Easter is Easter Sudany- Christian feast of the Resurrection of Jesus. On this day many families gather together at breakfast. Each member of household receives a piece of the Blessing Basket. A piece of egg is an accessory wiht which the good wishes are Exchange at Easter. Generally presents are not given, but sometime chocolate eggs and sweats are given to children. 

The day after Easter is known as Easter Monady. There is a very ancient Easter tradition called ‘Water Throwing Festival’. It is a custom of pouring water on one another. On that day everyone is wet. People splash each other with water or perfume. It is the last day of Easter celebration.

  

We all love this holiday. We prepare a lot of delicious Easter dishes and we cannot forget about the eggs. The dishes that we always prepare are: stuffed eggs, white brosht, Polish Easter bread and many others. Here are the desserts that I made for Easter.

The first picture shows the Easter bread, the second photo shows my favourite sweet Snickers cake, the third photo shows the typical Easter cake that is the Poppy sheed cake and the last one is the black cake with cream and chocolate.