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Easter Dessert Recipes
Grandma's Easter Dessert Recipes Make Perfect Easter Treats
Grandma's Easter dessert recipes will make perfect treats for your Easter Day celebrations. You are sure to enjoy the delicious homemade taste of old-fashioned dessert cakes, cookies, puddings, and candy.
You will also find an old-fashioned recipe for making hot cross buns. They are traditional at Easter time, and the homemade ones taste better than any you could buy.
These old-time Easter recipes call for all-natural ingredients, and they are very easy to make. Be sure to make lots, though, because everyone will love these tasty desserts.
The History Of EasterThe word "Easter" likely comes from the early German word eostarun, which means "dawn." This is fitting as Easter celebrates the early morning Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the first day of the week following his death by crucifixion on Good Friday. (Gospel of Mark 15-16).
Many European Christians call Easter "Pasha" from the Hebrew word pesah, which means "Passover." Jesus celebrated the Jewish Passover with His disciples shortly before he was arrested by the Roman soldiers and later executed.
Passover is a yearly remembrance of how God delivered the Jewish people from slavery in early Egypt (Exodus 12). Christians view Easter as a type of Passover since Jesus delivered them from eternal death and freed them from being a slave to sin through His sacrificial death and Resurrection.
Easter is traditionally celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, which could be anytime between March 22 and April 25; whereas the Jewish Passover is observed in March or April, on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan.
Celebratory dessert-type foods have been long associated with Easter. In medieval England, "tansies" were a favorite Easter dish that resembled a fruit-flavored, custard-like pancake. They were garnished with bitter-tasting leaves from the tansie herb symbolic of the "bitter herbs" of the Passover.
Authentic Renaissance Tansie Recipes
The Observance Of EasterEaster is the major Christian festival of the year. Most North American Christians observe Easter Day by attending a Sunday church service that is followed by a large family dinner which often features roast lamb. Fancy dessert cakes, cookies, and candy treats make the meal special.
On Easter morning, the children enjoy hunting for candy Easter Eggs and chocolate Easter Bunnies which are hidden throughout the house by their parents. In Grandma's day, hen's eggs were dyed by tieing onion skins around the eggs with string and boiling them. The multicolored boiled eggs were then eaten for breakfast early on Easter morning.
By the way, the world's biggest Easter Egg is in the town of Vegreville, Alberta, Canada. Made of multicolored aluminum triangles, it is 7.8 meters long (25.7 feet), 5.6 meters wide (18.3 feet), and stands 9.6 meters high (31.6 feet), and it weighs over 2300 kilograms (5000 lbs).
It's called Pysanka, the Ukrainian term for Easter Egg. The dedication plaque was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, in 1978.
The Pysanka photo was taken by my mother-in-law, Helen Fleming, on one of her holiday trips West.
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