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Easter

The fast ends with roast lamb, eggs and rich sweet breads to mark the Resurrection.

Resurrection of Jesus
Photo: Piero della Francesca, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Easter

Easter Sunday celebrates the Resurrection and ends the Lenten fast. Lamb is the meat of the day in much of Europe, a link to the Passover lamb. Eggs, once given up for Lent, come back dyed, painted or made of chocolate. Every country has its Easter bread or cake: the dove-shaped colomba in Italy, simnel cake with eleven marzipan balls in Britain, babka in Poland, mona de Pascua in Spain. In Poland a basket of food is blessed in church on Saturday and eaten at Sunday breakfast with sour rye soup.

The dishes

Easter eggDyed, painted or chocolate, the sign of new life.Colomba di PasquaItaly's dove-shaped Easter cake.Simnel cakeBritish fruit cake with marzipan.BabkaTall yeast cake of the Polish Easter table.Sour rye soupSour rye soup with egg and sausage at Polish Easter breakfast.Mona de PascuaSpanish Easter cake given by godparents.

Also part of it, and being written: Lamb and mutton (The Easter meat across much of Europe.), Hornazo (Spanish meat pie eaten at Easter.).

About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Easter" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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