Easter. Popular beliefs. What is forbidden to eat on Easter What people eat on Easter
Today they are preparing for Easter in advance. Please note that already a month before the holiday, shops are overflowing with Easter goods. This is a decoration for the table, and all kinds of goodies.
But how did this happen in Rus', when it was not possible to buy Easter cakes and other goodies in the store?
As now, preparations for Easter began on Maundy Thursday. They painted eggs and baked cakes. In Rus', eggs were dyed with onion skins and magenta. They decorated them with silk ribbons and laid them out on the greens of wheat or oats. They also baked honey gingerbread in the shape of sheep, bulls, bunnies.
For Easter in Rus', they prepared an Easter nest. Raw eggs were pierced on both sides, and the contents were blown out. The inside was thoroughly washed and filled with some kind of jelly. Left the eggs in the cold. When the holiday came, they were cleaned and eaten a delicious treat.
Traditions in the preparation of a festive table in Rus' on Easter
For Easter in Rus', the first thing they prepared was oatmeal jelly. It had to be well insisted and drunk before eating Easter cake. It was believed that if you drink such jelly, then the whole year will be fruitful. Friday before Easter was considered mournful. On this day, they remember the dead, visit the cemetery. On this day, nothing could be eaten except bread and water.
From midnight on Saturday, people began to congratulate each other. At first, people kissed each other three times on the cheek and "christened." In the morning everyone went to the temple and brought Easter cakes and eggs there to consecrate. An important tradition on this day is to exchange colored eggs and say "Christ is Risen".
The history of setting the table for Easter in Rus'
After a strict fast on the morning of the celebration, it was customary to lay a large table at which the whole family gathered. Rye bread and fresh chopped vegetables were always present on the table. If by the time of Easter fresh greens had time to ascend, then they laid them out on a larger dish. Sweet Easter was prepared from cottage cheese. It is prepared quite simply, but it must be insisted for quite some time. Also on the table were boiled cereals, as well as grated horseradish and salted vegetables.
This Sunday the Orthodox will celebrate Easter - one of the most important holidays in the Christian tradition. Nevertheless, many non-religious people also eat Easter cake on this day and paint eggs for it in advance. We learned from the priest what the rules are, why Easter cakes are baked for Easter, and whether it is possible for non-Orthodox people to celebrate this day.
Andrey Posternak
priest
Easter, eggs and Easter cakes have been cooked since time immemorial, it is obvious that this tradition arose even in the period when there was no Christianity yet, although we do not know about this exactly and in detail. Christian tradition has put a completely different meaning into this: the egg is a symbol of life. There is a well-known story that was included in the Life of St. Mary Magdalene - that she brought an egg to Emperor Tiberius as a symbol of the resurrection of Christ, the birth of a new life. Of course, we do not know the authenticity of this story, but life recorded it. And it is clear that the birth of a new life and the red color (as the color of the blood of Christ) will become the Easter color from then on.
Easter in shape resembles the tomb of Christ, at least there is such an interpretation, but Easter cake is a memory of prosphora, on the one hand, and on the other, of bread, which is blessed on Saturday, a week after Easter, and is called "artos" .
Easter cakes, eggs and Easter are traditionally consecrated on the eve of Easter itself, on Saturday, or, more rarely, on Easter day itself, when artos bread is always blessed after the festive service. For a week it stands in the temple in front of the altar on a special stand - an lectern, during the procession it is also worn around the temple. And a week after Easter, on Saturday, it is cut into pieces and distributed to believers like prosphora, which is eaten on an empty stomach. It is artos in its form that is the prototype of Easter cake.
It is clear that all three of these foods are made from non-fast foods: Easter also marks the end of Lent. And on Easter, of course, there is no rigidly regulated tradition associated with church canons - what, how and when to eat. The most important thing is that there are elements of non-lean food: cottage cheese, eggs, butter. And how to cook these dishes and in what proportions, there is no regulation. Also, there is no unification in the coloring of eggs - they can be decorated as you like. So here the ingredients themselves do not play any role, you can change the recipe and add something from yourself, there are no special requirements for these dishes.
How to eat Easter and Easter cake and in what order is also not important, because there are no rules. You can smear Easter on Easter cake, you can not do this, Easter cake can be dry or not, it all depends on the recipe, and here everyone chooses their own. There is no unification in the Russian Orthodox Church, and in different parishes and communities they are calm about this.
The Orthodox do not mind that non-religious people also celebrate Easter, the main thing is that there is respect and reverence for the existing tradition.
The traditions of celebrating Easter have been formed over the centuries, they are distinguished by their beauty, solemnity and innermost meaning.
Oksana Frolova
“Long before the adoption of Christianity in Rus', the Slavs celebrated the spring festival every year, dedicated to the goddess Zora, awakening nature from winter sleep. Men lit fires, and women decorated themselves with herbs and flowers, and then went around the village, calling the earth to fertility. On this day, they poured water on each other, danced round dances, jumped over fires and laid a rich table. In ancient Greece, the goddess of agriculture, Demeter, was glorified in the spring, the Egyptians prayed to the god of rebirth, Osiris, and the Romans, to the goddess Ceres. The ancient Celts and Germans worshiped Ostara, the goddess of dawn and the renewal of nature, offering her colored eggs and wheat bread. Some historians argue that Easter symbols were born from the worship of Ostara, although our Slavic ancestors offered painted eggs to Perun and considered the egg to be the germ of the entire universe.
There are also legends that once the evil demons of Koshchei attacked Rus', causing a fiery rain and many cataclysms. After the victory over them, the Slavs established the Easter holiday - “The Way of Deliverance”. They painted eggs with ocher in memory of the fiery showers and beat them with shells against each other, remembering the battle with the demons. The winner was the one whose egg remained intact.
How to prepare for Easter
Since the eve of the great holiday is Great Lent, which, together with Holy Week, lasts 48 days. Among the customs and traditions of Easter, fasting, according to many church parishioners, is the most difficult thing. During this period, believers limit themselves to food and entertainment, attend church services, read the Gospel and spend a lot of time in prayer and spiritual reflection. In apostolic times, Christians fasted for three days before Easter, but later the church introduced new rules so that believers would remember how Jesus fasted in the wilderness for 40 days.
The strictest week of Great Lent is Holy Week, the last week before Easter. During this week, many Christians attend services in the temple every day, fasting becomes even stricter, on Friday, the day of the crucifixion of Christ, you can not eat until the end of the evening service. Thursday of Holy Week is called clean, because on this day believers remember how Jesus washed the feet of the disciples. In Rus', Christians on Maundy Thursday performed ablution before sunrise. Our ancestors believed in the magical power of Thursday water, believing that it relieves sins and cleanses the soul. Until now, one of the surviving folk traditions of Easter in Russia is the general cleaning on Maundy Thursday. There was a belief that if you clean the house on this day, you can find long-lost and necessary things.
Easter table preparation
On Holy Week, bake Easter cakes and cook Easter cottage cheese. According to church tradition, it is better to do this on Saturday, but in practice it is impossible to do everything in a day, so preparation for the Bright Resurrection of Christ begins on Great Monday. However, on Good Friday, it is still recommended to refrain from household chores, because Jesus was crucified on this day.
Father Roman
Priest
“The main Easter dish can be considered Easter cake, which is the first food for breaking the fast. Interestingly, we eat bread every day, and only once a year does it become a sacred symbol. We consider Easter cake to be a “relative” of bread, which is placed on the lectern in the church on the first day of the Bright Week. But for this, Easter cake, like colored eggs, must be consecrated in the church during the Sabbath service. I am often asked how to celebrate Easter properly. It is necessary not only to pay attention to the festive table, but also to attend all the services of the Easter Week, remembering the life of Christ, pray a lot and delve into the reading of Holy Scripture. This is the proper celebration of Easter."
Easter cake differs from traditional bread in that it is baked from rich dough and decorated with icing. In Rus', during the fast, the hostesses kept eggs and dairy products in every possible way, and then used them for Easter baking. In old cookbooks, you can find recipes where there are 100 eggs per 2 kg of flour. It's hard to believe, but in fact there were a lot of Easter cakes, and a large family ate them during Bright Week.
In the old days, Easter baking was approached very responsibly. It was believed that the dough for Easter cake is very tender, so the dishes with the dough were covered with pillows, moreover, it was impossible to talk and walk in the room in heavy shoes - the tender dough could not stand even the slightest noise. To prevent the muffin from settling, the temperature in the room was maintained as in a room for newborns, and the cake cooled down only on a down pillow.
An obligatory dish of the Easter table has always been cottage cheese Easter, which is prepared from grated high-fat cottage cheese, butter, eggs, cream, powdered sugar, sour cream, dried fruits, candied fruits, chocolate and nuts. Easter is made in the form of a tetrahedral pyramid, which is the personification of Golgotha, and is decorated with images of the cross and Easter symbols.
Why do we color eggs?
There are many versions of where the tradition of painting eggs for Easter came from, in addition to the customs of the ancient Slavs, who brought red eggs (crayons) to the gods, asking them for the fertility of the earth and a generous harvest.
One of the legends is connected with Mary Magdalene, who brought a chicken egg to Emperor Tiberius with the news of the resurrection of Christ. The emperor doubted the veracity of her words and declared that he would believe only if the egg turned red right now. The egg suddenly turned red, and since then, eggs have been dyed red at Easter. According to another version, the red egg symbolizes the blood of the crucified Christ, and the patterns on it are the tears of the Virgin. The third version tells that as a child, baby Jesus loved to play with eggs and Mary painted them to make his toys more colorful.
When Jesus was sentenced to death, the Mother of God came to Pontius Pilate with a request for mercy and brought him a whole tray of painted eggs. After the emperor's refusal, her hands trembled, the tray fell to the ground, and the eggs scattered all over the world.
In Rus', the first painted egg was revered as a powerful amulet, and it was kept for a year. It was believed that such an egg could drive out evil spirits from the house, protect livestock from diseases, protect the family from strife and put out the fire. The girls dipped dyes into the water and washed themselves, believing that the water would preserve beauty and prolong youth. Easter egg shells were sprinkled on the fields for a good harvest. Eggs in Rus' were dyed with onion skins, but now we have such a large selection of food colors and Easter decor that an egg can be turned into a work of art. Modern housewives paint eggs in different shades, decorating them with paintings, stickers, threads, beads and decoupage.
Folk signs and traditions of Easter
On Saturday evening, the whole family went to the temple for the All-Night Service, which began with a procession around the church and ended in the morning. Children, of course, were taken away earlier, and the most persistent parishioners remained until the end of the service. In the morning they laid the festive table, decorated it with flowers specially grown for Easter, and broke the fast. This is how Easter is now celebrated in Russia and other countries, although you can buy flowers and not grow them yourself. Wealthy people on the table that day always had 48 dishes in memory of each day of Lent.
In the old days, before the Easter meal, they first honored their ancestors - they put a pot of honey in front of the icons, offered up a prayer, took eggs in their hands and with the words “Christ is risen! He is truly risen!" hit them against each other.
One of the most popular Easter amusements was rolling painted eggs down a hill, and for this purpose, wooden toy slides for children were made especially for the holiday. Whose egg rolls the farthest is the winner. They also played "hunting for eggs" - adults hid the testicles in the house and on the street, and the children looked for them, whoever found the egg - took it for himself. Easter eggs were distributed to the poor, and one egg was always left in the church - it was believed that this gives the family prosperity and a good life. On Easter, girls wove wreaths of flowers, which were then kept in the house for a whole year as a talisman. And there was also a custom on the eve of Easter and throughout the entire Easter week to do many good deeds and pious deeds to forgive especially grave sins and save the soul. They tried not to eat kulich whole - they cut off pieces from it, dried them, and then stored them as a medicine that was used for a year to treat various diseases.
The strength of Easter traditions is so great that even during the Great Patriotic War, believers celebrated Easter by bringing to church for consecration those crumbs of black bread that they received on cards. In Soviet times, confectioners managed to sell Easter cakes with the veiled name "Spring Cupcake" in stores. In the early years of Soviet power, night discos and film screenings of foreign films were organized for young people on Easter night to compete with the All-Night Service. Representatives of the KGB were on duty at the temples on Easter night, so people who were afraid of "lighting up" did not go to church. In those days, Radonitsa became the most popular day - the day of commemoration of the dead, which falls on the 9th day after Christ's Sunday - for many it replaced Easter. The people went to the cemeteries with eggs and muffins "Spring", because the graves of the dead did not pose a danger to the Soviet government.
So, first things first. Let's start with the first question.
How to fast before Easter?
Good Friday is the strictest fast. According to the Charter, nothing is supposed to be eaten on this day. If you can bear it for your health, try it. On all other days of Holy Week, fasting is also strict, we eat only plant foods, and without oil.
When can I break the fast at Easter?
Breaking the fast (the first fast meal after the end of the fast) on Easter is usually performed after the Liturgy and Communion. If you were at the Liturgy at night, then after the night service you can start the festive meal. If you came to the Liturgy in the morning, then in the same way - after Communion - you can break the fast. The main thing is to approach everything with a sense of proportion. Don't overeat.
How to spend Easter day? Are there things that cannot be done?
On this day, you can not be sad, walk gloomy and swear with your neighbors. But just remember that Easter is not 24 hours, but at least a whole week - Bright Week. In the liturgical plan, the Resurrection of Christ is celebrated for seven days. Let this week be an example of how we should always behave in society, among people. How should you spend Easter?
Rejoice, treat others, invite them to visit you, visit the suffering. In a word, everything that brings joy to your neighbor, and therefore to you.
What can you eat on Easter and can you drink alcohol on Easter?
On Easter you can eat and drink everything, the main thing is to do it in moderation. If you know how to stop in time, you can treat yourself to all the dishes, drink wine or some strong drinks - not to the point of being very intoxicated, of course. But if you find it difficult to limit yourself, it is better not to touch alcohol. Rejoice in spiritual joy.
Can I work on Easter?
Most often, the question of whether to work or not does not depend on us. If you have a day off on Easter Sunday, this is, of course, very good. You can visit the temple, and meet with loved ones, and congratulate everyone.
But it often happens that we turn out to be forced people and, according to the work schedule, are forced to work on Easter. There is nothing wrong if you work hard. Maybe you can be sad about this, but no more than five minutes! Obedience is obedience.
Do your work on this day in good faith. If you fulfill your duties in simplicity and truth, the Lord will surely touch your heart.
Is it possible to do homework on Easter? Cleaning, knitting, sewing?
When we read somewhere that there is a ban on homework on a holiday, we should understand that it is not just a ban, but a blessing that we spend this time in attention to the Lord, the holiday and our neighbors. So that we do not get hung up on worldly fuss. The ban on working on Easter is not canonical, but rather a pious tradition.
Household chores are an integral part of our lives. You can do them on a holiday, but only by approaching this wisely. In order not to spend Easter doing general cleaning until the very night. Sometimes it is better, for example, to leave unwashed dishes in the sink than to be annoyed at household members who have not washed their dishes.
How should we greet each other at Easter?
Easter greeting - angelic. When the Myrrh-Bearing Women came to the Holy Sepulcher to anoint the body of the crucified Christ with spices, they saw an Angel there. He announced to them: “Why are you looking for the living among the dead?” That is, he told that the Savior had risen.
We greet our brothers and sisters in faith at Easter with the words "Christ is Risen!" and we answer the greeting: “Truly He is risen!”. Thus, we tell the whole world that for us the Resurrection of Christ is the basis of life.
What to give for Easter?
On Easter, you can give your neighbor any pleasant and necessary gifts. And it will be good if any gift has an Easter egg, decorated or red. The testicle as a symbol of evidence of new life - the Resurrection of Christ.
The red color of the Easter egg is a memory of the tradition according to which Mary Magdalene gave the emperor Tiberius an egg for Easter. The emperor told her that he did not believe that a person could be resurrected, that it was as incredible as if this white egg suddenly turned red.
And, according to legend, a miracle happened - in front of everyone, the egg turned red, like the blood of Christ. Now the painted egg is a symbol of Easter, the Resurrection of the Savior.
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Easter table designed to emphasize the greatness of this holiday. Previously, in wealthy families, it was customary to put whole forty different dishes- as a reminder of the forty days of Lent preceding Easter. Of course, it is not at all necessary to be so sophisticated, the main thing is to make sure that the obligatory dishes are present on the festive table.
Easter table in the old days they were covered for the whole day. Family and close friends gathered behind him in a close circle, who had not seen each other for a long time, because it was not customary to visit during fasting. On this day, holiday cards were signed and sent to distant relatives and friends.
After dinner, they began to play various games and amusements, went out into the street to congratulate each other - the day passed joyfully and festively.
People prepared for the great and bright feast of the Resurrection of the Lord for seven days. On Thursday they started baking Easter cakes. By the main holiday of all believing Christians, these confectionery products were baked in a special way: the dough was cooked only on yolks. And it could only be baked on birch logs.
Flour for holiday baking must be sifted. A few days before the bright holiday, the dough was placed in a warm, darkened corner of the house so that it could infuse. They put their soul into cooking. The main household chores faded into the background, the whole day was devoted to preparing for the bright holiday.
So what are the dishes Easter must be on the table?
Easter main dishes- these are colored eggs, Easter cake and cottage cheese Easter. Each of these dishes has its own symbolism, which we will talk about a little later. In addition, to Easter table they bake rum babas and honey gingerbread in the form of animals, prepare various meat dishes. And here is the fish Easter table filing is not accepted, although there are no prohibitions in this regard.
Hot dishes for Easter are usually not prepared, so as not to force the hostess to run from the festive table to the stove and back, but to give her the opportunity to celebrate calmly with everyone. It is customary to cover the Easter table with a light-colored tablecloth, ideally white. The Easter table must certainly be beautiful, plentiful and tasty..
Easter cake
Easter cake consecrated in the church is an obligatory dish of the festive table. Easter cake is made from a very rich yeast dough, thanks to which the cake does not get stale for a long time. The size of the cake can be different, but it must be high. Candied fruits, dried fruits, spices, nuts are often added to Easter cake, and the top is covered with powdered sugar or icing.
It is with the consecrated Easter cake that the Easter meal begins. breaking their fast after Great Lent. Most often this happens at home, when the head of the family divides the Easter cake according to the number of household members. But sometimes they break the fast with Easter cake right in the church, immediately after the end of the Easter service, treating each other and the clergy with pieces of their Easter cake.
Curd Easter
The traditional Easter table is not complete without cottage cheese Easter - a special dish made from cottage cheese, which is prepared only once a year, especially for the holiday of Christ's Bright Sunday. Easter has the shape of a truncated pyramid, which symbolizes the Holy Sepulcher. To cook Easter, you need a special collapsible form of wood - a pasochnik.
On the inside of the boards from which the bead is made, the letters ХВ are cut out - the initial letters of the words that make up the traditional Easter greeting "Christ is Risen!". In addition, cut out on the boards symbols of the suffering and resurrection of Jesus Christ- spear, cross, cane, sprouts, flowers, sprouted grains. All these images are printed on the finished Easter.
colored eggs
What is an Easter table without colored eggs? According to legend, the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene came to the Roman emperor Tiberius, announced the resurrection of Jesus Christ and presented him with a chicken egg. The emperor did not believe it, saying that this could not be, just like a chicken egg cannot be red. After these words, the chicken egg, which the emperor was holding in his hand at that moment, turned red.
Red is a symbol of the blood shed by Christ for all people.. But besides red, Easter eggs are dyed in other colors. It is customary to paint Easter eggs on Maundy Thursday, and they are consecrated on the night from Holy Saturday to Sunday. You can simply color the eggs with onion peel or food coloring, or you can work hard and paint the egg with unusual patterns, turning it into a real work of art.
Easter is a holiday that is usually celebrated with family.
Let the beautiful and plentiful Easter table become a symbol of prosperity and well-being in your family.
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The main decoration of the festive table, of course, is Easter.
Traditionally, it has always been prepared with lots of butter, sugar and eggs. Below are the Easter recipes.
Ingredients:
Unleavened cottage cheese - 500 g. Sugar - 300 g. Butter - 250 g. Egg - 4 pcs. Raisins - half a glass
Cooking:
1. Cook two hard boiled eggs
2. While the eggs are boiling, mix the cottage cheese and sugar until smooth. Add pre-softened butter to this mixture and mix thoroughly.
3. We clean the boiled eggs, separate the yolks and add them to the curd mixture. Mix thoroughly again, trying to grind the yolks.
4. Break two raw eggs into this mixture and mix again.
5. We clean, sort and thoroughly wash the raisins.
6. Add to the curd mixture and mix again.
7. Line a colander with gauze. Pour the mixture onto it. Cover with the same gauze on top. Put under the load, about 3 liters of water. And send it all to the refrigerator for 7 ... 9 hours.
8. Put the finished Easter whole on a plate and decorate with raisins, candied fruits or chocolate chips.
Curd Easter ready.
Ingredients:
cottage cheese from the press about 450 grams, 120 grams of butter, 100 grams of raspberry syrup, 50 grams of sugar, 2 chicken eggs, a little more than a glass of good sour cream
Cooking:
First of all, we wipe our cottage cheese through a sieve and mix it with raspberry syrup. The next step is to add eggs and sugar, and then butter and sour cream. We mix the mass well and put it into the form, which was previously laid out with gauze. We put under the so-called oppression for five hours in a cold place.
Easter should be decorated with something original and bright.
Ingredients:
400 g cottage cheese, 400 g 25~30% sour cream, 200 g white chocolate, 1/4 cup milk,
~ 0.5 cups of dried fruits and candied fruits.
Cooking:
Pour milk into a small saucepan, put the broken white chocolate, put on a small fire and bring until the chocolate is completely melted. Mix cottage cheese, sour cream, melted chocolate (when warm), candied fruits and steamed dried fruits.
Moisten a thin, dense cloth with water and line the bead box with it.
Put the curd mass in a pasochnik, put a load on top and leave for a day to drain excess moisture.
After 6-12 hours, put the structure in the refrigerator.
Turn over the finished Easter on a dish, remove the form and fabric.
Keep Easter in the refrigerator before serving.
When cutting, it is advisable to moisten the knife in hot water and then wipe it dry with a napkin.
Easter with dried apricots
To prepare Easter you will need: 300 gr. cottage cheese, 200 gr. dried apricots and 100 gr. Sahara. Rinse dried apricots and boil in sugar syrup. Squeeze the cottage cheese, mix with chilled dried apricots and rub the mass through a sieve, then wrap the curd circle in a dense cloth and hold for 3 hours under oppression in a cool place. Having given Easter a strict, “classic” form, it can be decorated with prunes or candied fruits.
When starting to bake an Easter cake or an Easter woman, it is very important to remember that the dough for this baking loves only fresh products, and, most importantly, the warmth of human hands, which means that you should not use a mixer during the cooking process. You should not start kneading if you are sick or tired - the dough simply will not rise!
50 gr. dissolve yeast in 1 tbsp. warm milk, adding 1 tbsp. granulated sugar. After the fermentation process has begun, pour the brew into a container with 0.5 kg. flour, salt, add 8 yolks, mashed with 50 gr. sugar and mix thoroughly. After the dough becomes elastic and begins to “lag behind” hands, pour in 3 tbsp. melted butter and knead again. Pour 100 gr. into the finished dough. soaked raisins, put in a form, filling it by 1/3 and put for 2 hours for "sludge". When the dough has increased significantly in volume, grease its top with an egg and bake at a temperature of 200 gr. within 1 hour.
Ready hot cake can be poured with fondant or covered with vanilla sugar.
To prepare fudge 150 gr. grind powdered sugar with boiled water, gradually adding juice from half a lemon and rum essence. When the mixture becomes “airy” and shiny, the fondant is ready.
Ingredients:
For test:
yeast - 75 g, eggs - 7 pieces, milk - 2 tbsp., sugar - 100 g,
flour - 9-10 st., butter - 150 g.
Cooking:
To prepare the dough, take warm milk, yeast, half the flour and mix. Sprinkle the finished dough with flour and leave it warm for an hour. Then add flour and knead the dough until it stops sticking. Beat the egg whites into foam, add them to the dough and mix again, adding flour to thicken the dough. We put the dishes with kneading in a warm place to approach, cover with a towel on top.
We put the finished dough on the table and divide it into two parts, of which the largest part is the base of the cake, the small one is for decorations. We spread the Easter cake in a round pan, the surface of which is oiled and sprinkled with flour, we make decorations from the rest of the dough and leave it warm for proofing. Lubricate the risen cake with oil and bake until tender.
Ingredients:
For test:
flour - 4 tbsp., eggs - 15 pieces, sugar - 690 g., milk - 4.5 tbsp.,
yeast - 100 g, oil - 1 kg, salt.
Cooking:
To prepare the custard dough, mix the flour and hot milk thoroughly, cool to normal temperature. We dissolve the yeast in a small amount of heated milk, add it to the brewed dough and leave the resulting mixture warm for at least one hour.
Beat the yolks well with sugar, add to the risen dough and mix. Whisk the egg whites to stiff peaks, fold into the batter and mix. We put the finished mixture in heat for a secondary rise.
When the dough has risen, gradually stir in the melted butter. We rub the baking molds with butter and sprinkle with flour, after which we spread the finished dough. After the dough has doubled, cover its surface with yolk and bake until tender at 170-180 C.
Ingredients:
For test:
flour - 5 tbsp., sugar - 55-60 g, yeast - 25-35 g, flour - 1 1/2 tbsp., milk - 2 1/4 tbsp., melted butter - 180 g.
For flavored sugar:
sugar - 230 g. and any of the flavors: vanilla - 2 g,
orange peel, ground coffee - 3.5 g, rose oil - 8 drops, rose petals - 0.5 cups
Cooking:
To prepare fragrant sugar, grind it with any of the proposed flavors.
For Easter cake we prepare custard dough: mix flour and a third of hot milk, cover and leave for an hour. Add the remaining milk, yeast and a quarter of fragrant sugar to the brewed dough. Pour a little flour, stir, cover with a towel and leave warm. After the dough has risen, pour in warm melted butter, add the rest of the flour and knead the dough, from which we make Easter cakes.
The cookies should rise before baking.
Kulich "Quick"
Ingredients:
For test:
yeast - 10 g, sugar - 460 g, milk - 3 tbsp., flour - 6 tbsp.,
oil - 400 g, eggs - 3 pieces, raisins (seedless) - 380 g.
Cooking:
From a glass of hot milk, sifted flour, granulated sugar and softened butter, knead the dough, to which we add the yeast dissolved in the remaining milk. Leave the dough for at least an hour to rise.
Separate the yolks from the proteins, beat the latter into a thick foam, rub the yolks with sugar. Gradually add to the risen dough and add the raisins.
In a mold greased with butter or margarine, spread the dough and set to bake until cooked. Baking temperature 170-180 C.
Ingredients:
Egg - 2 pcs., Sugar - 1 tbsp., Sour cream - 200 g., Condensed milk - 4 tbsp., Flour - 9 tbsp. with a slide., Breadcrumbs. Cocoa - 2 tablespoons, Soda - 1 tsp
For cream:
Liquor - 2 tablespoons, Condensed milk - 150 g, Sour cream 30% - 200 g, Butter - 200 g. Vanilla sugar - 2 sachets.
For decoration:
Prunes - 150 g., Dried cherries. Sugar - 3 tbsp. Red wine.
Cooking:
1. Beat eggs with sugar, add sour cream, condensed milk, soda slaked with vinegar, salt on the tip of a knife and flour. Knead the dough well.
2. From half of the dough, bake a cake on a square baking sheet, greased with margarine and sprinkled with breadcrumbs. Add cocoa to the second half of the dough and bake another cake. Cool down.
3. Lay the cakes on top of each other and cut out an oval egg shape. Cut the chocolate cake into two.
4. Beat butter with condensed milk and sour cream, add a bag of vanilla sugar. Add some liquor to 1/3 cup of boiled water.
5. Assemble the cake. Put a dark cake on an oval dish, soak it with liquor, generously smear with cream. Put a light cake on it and repeat the same operations. Cover with a dark cake, soak again with liquor and brush with cream.
6. Steam prunes with boiling water, remove the bones, squeeze lightly, cut into pieces. Knead the trimmings from the cakes with your hands in a bowl with prunes and the remaining cream. Lay on top of the cake, shaping the shape of an egg, smoothing the edges. Round the bottom of the cake slightly inwards. Use a knife to smooth out any bumps, refrigerate for 2 hours.
7. Melt on fire in 1 tbsp. spoon of boiling water 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar, bring to a boil, stirring all the time. Beat 1 chilled protein into a strong foam, continuing to beat, pour boiling syrup into the protein at the moment when the sugar boils evenly with bubbles, and immediately pour in the juice of a third of a lemon and add a bag of vanilla sugar. You should get a snow-white light cream with which to decorate the cake. Arrange cherries soaked in red wine along the edge of the cake.
But, besides Easter cakes, you can cook other festive dishes for Easter.
From 0.5 kg. flour, 250 gr. melted butter, 1 tbsp. sugar and 1 egg yolk, quickly knead the shortbread dough and bake in a hot oven until cooked, pricked in several places with a fork.
The cream is prepared from 500 gr. cream and the same amount of sugar, 100 gr. butter and vanilla. After mixing the ingredients, they are thoroughly ground and boiled over low heat until sour cream is thick, stirring constantly.
Pour the mazurka with the finished chilled cream and sprinkle with chopped nuts on top.
200 gr. "Russian", "Dutch", "Swiss" cheeses and cheese "Parmesan" grate on a fine grater, add 400 gr. softened butter and 150 ml. rum or cognac. Mix everything thoroughly and put into bowls.
For a one and a half kilogram serving of the dish you will need: 1.5 kg. ham, 100 gr. red wine and butter, 5 pcs. dry cloves, zest of one lemon and 1 tbsp. flour and sugar.
Pour thin slices of ham with softened butter and wine, add the remaining ingredients and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes.
Gutted pig salt on top and inside, stuff and bake on a wire rack. You can stuff it with a liver with bacon, scrolled through a meat grinder and flavored with whipped yolks and a small amount of white bread; liver grated with buckwheat or rice porridge, as well as rice porridge with boiled eggs and green onions added to it.
Salt the freshly plucked and gutted duck inside and out, fill the legs into the cuts made at the bottom of the carcass and fry in a saucepan until half cooked for 30-40 minutes. then divide the duck into 6 parts and put in a baking dish.
To prepare the sauce in the saucepan where the duck was cooked, brew 2 tbsp. broth 1 tbsp. flour. Let the liquid boil - remove the fat, add the juice of 3 oranges and 200 ml. white wine, then boil again. Put 2-3 oranges into a mold with pieces of duck, divided into slices and peeled of seeds, pour over the prepared sauce and bake in a hot oven until tender. When serving a dish, oranges serve as a side dish for meat.
Boil and cut into 1 kg apple slices. beets. Add to it 300 gr. boiled and finely chopped prunes, 200 gr. any crushed nuts, 1 onion, fried in 100 gr. vegetable oil and 2 tbsp. liquid honey. Mix everything thoroughly. For extra flavor, add 1-2 tbsp to the beets. ground coriander seeds.
To prepare the dish, apples, onions and chicken meat are taken in equal portions. Boil chicken with onion, celery and carrots, cool and chop finely. Peel and chop green apples. Separately chop the onion. Thoroughly mix all the ingredients of the salad and season it with mayonnaise.
Taken in approximately equal amounts, cut the fillets of several species of fish, squid, peeled shrimp and crab meat into small longitudinal sticks, dip in batter and deep-fry.
To prepare the batter, beat until a thick creamy state and add 3 eggs, 0.5 tbsp. beer and 100 gr. flour.
Bon appetit!
There are several holidays associated with the Resurrection of Christ. They do not have fixed dates, and the day of celebration is counted from Sunday.
- SATURDAY OF LAZARUS AND THE ENTRY OF THE LORD INTO JERUSALEM - Saturday and Sunday before Easter;
- ASCENSION - Thursday, 40 days after Easter;
- HOLY TRINITY (Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles) - Sunday, 50 days after Easter;
- ALL SAINTS - Sunday, a week after the Holy Trinity;
- ALL SAINTS IN THE LAND OF THE RUSSIAN SHINE - Sunday, a week after All Saints.
