Easter Recipes
Easter
is almost upon us and we’re now thinking about the food we’ll prepare
for our families to enjoy on the most holy festival in the Christian
year.
Good
Friday generally means a fish dinner, as in the past the consuming
of meat was forbidden on Fridays. Recipes such as Sole
Cushions, Lobster Thermidor,
Brill Soufflé, Turbot
Au Gratin, Fish pie or Baked
Hake were traditionally eaten on Good Friday.
Of
course in the meantime mom will be making hard boiled eggs for the
children to decorate. Some of us will go to extreme lengths to achieve
the perfect egg, such as boiling them in spinach water to dye them
green or with raw beets to turn them red. You could also make use
of Onion skins and flower petals by winding them around the eggs with
brown string to give mottled effects.
Then
there’ll be those of us that simply put some food coloring into a
pan of water and boil the eggs.
Whichever
route you choose once your eggs are hardboiled you need to polish
them with a little olive oil. Then let the kids go wild.
For
an extra wonderful surprise for the children, try piercing the widest
end of an egg and shake out the white and yolk then leave it to dry
out thoroughly. Once the shell is completely dry using a small funnel
pour in melted chocolate, imagine their delight when they crack the
egg open.
Easter
Sunday is traditionally a Lamb dinner, as lamb symbolizes the innocence
of Christ. However nowadays though, a lot of families will be enjoying
a ham or roast turkey. A traditional menu for your Easter Sunday Dinner
would include Stuffed Eggs, Saddle
of Lamb with Wine Sauce, Vegetables of Your Choice, Green Salad
and Grapefruit in Brandy.
Hot Cross buns are another huge
Easter tradition, and if you are like me you don't need to wait until
Easter to eat them!
Easter
Cakes vary throughout the world. A few examples are…
The
SIMNEL CAKE which was originally made
for Mothering Sunday is now made in Britain for Easter.
The
Russians bake a yeast cake known as KULICH.
The
Portuguese the traditional sweet is Angel's
Hair.
The
Italians Bake COLOMBA and the
Sicilians make CASSATA ALLA
SICILIANA.
I
wish every-one a Happy Easter.
Lesley
Thurmond is the wife of Len Thurmond and they have 3 children at home
who will be enjoying the Easter Festivities. Because of Len's work
on the internet Lesley decided to put together a choice of recipes
and various articles and publish them at
http://www.greatgrandmascookbook.com
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