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It's Palm Sunday in the Orthodox world.
This year the Orthodox church celebrates Easter one week behind the Western Christian churches.
Yesterday was the Saturday of Lazarus.
This a photo from days of old. These grandaughters are lanky teenagers now. But in those days of old Papou showed them how to make paper Lazarus dolls. They're like paper puppets and move up and down. Probably representing the rising of Lazarus from the dead.
Last year, having nothing better to do during quarantine, I baked Lazarus cookies. My traditional person likes to keep tradition alive. It was fun for the grandkids too.
This week, called Holy Week, they'll be up to bake traditional greek easter cookies with their traditional Papou
Today, as I mentioned, is Palm Sunday and one of the days during the 6 weeks of Lent that everyone eats fish. K is cooking fish soup made from salt cod, which has been well de-salted.
In Greek Orthodox churches today the faithful who attend are given small crosses made from palm branches.
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Living in a country where there are many religions
ReplyDeleteAnd celebrate the Catholic Easter it’s always weird during Easter. I don’t feel part of the Catholic one, but, by the time the orthodox Easter comes along I’m all Eastered out. So I don’t feel like celebrating all over again
As long as your folks are around I bet they let you forget the orthodox Easter. It was much easier when they all landed on the same date.
DeleteThank goodness our daughter is holding the Easter feast this year.
Great Lazarus cookies LA. What do they taste like?
ReplyDeleteLike a hot cross bun. They have cinnamon, spice and raisins. Quite nice but need to be eaten on the first day
DeleteSpooky cookies!
ReplyDeleteI know. I didn't feel that way last year when I made them but when I saw them today I thought..... A biscuit in the shape of a dead man in his burial clothes? Shiver me timbers.
DeleteOnce was enough
Your Easter traditions continue with the fish and the cookies. K holds on there!
ReplyDeleteThe cookies (biscuits to us) and the fish are still traditions that most follow and this week the majority will fast. But other traditions are falling into the abyss. I admit that I'm on his side. The Lazarus biscuits are easy to make and good to eat, forgetting what they represent!!
DeleteThe paper dolls are a craft that the girls enjoyed making. Maybe they'll remember and show their children. I hope so
It would seem strange to eat those Lazarus cookies, looking like they do - but, then, I also find it strange eating gingerbread men!
ReplyDeleteWhen I first made the biscuits I didn't really think about what they represented. They were a tasty treat. Looking back at the photos they are just a little creepy
DeleteEaster traditions we all hold dear. Your little biscuits sound delicious, I miss Hot Cross buns.
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter dear friend.
Jo
Boy do I miss hotcross buns!! I'm going to make a batch, or two. I've got to get my act together
DeleteOur lazarakia bread was a huge hit with the kids. They were really cute, and we had a lot of fun looking at them all. We had one cyclops Lazarus, and a whole lot that looked like the pillsbury dough boy. :)
ReplyDeleteBlessed Holy Week to you and K!
The baked ones look much better than that raw dough version. I remember they smelled great and were nice and spicy.
DeleteYou and your ladies are great bakers
Nice to see the traditions continuing.
ReplyDeleteI tease K about his insistence on keeping up traditions but it's something for children and grandchildren to remember and maybe continue
DeleteChocolate seems to have taken over from all other food tradtions in the Easters i have celebrated with my English partners family (theg are not religious in any way - other than religious consumers of junk). It is a shzme that chocolate has pushed so much aside and that few understand the traditional meaning of what remains (like hot X buns). Good on you all for maintaining some traditional ways.
ReplyDeleteThe grandkids got the big decorated Easter eggs when they were younger but they weren't fussed. Now chocolate has taken a back seat. They enjoy red eggs and koulourakia and all the Easter ritual
DeleteMy sister and I were just yesterday talking about the ‘dyed with food colouring eggs’ we used to make. No chocolate eggs for us in the 1950s.
ReplyDeleteHot cross buns are still going strong in Australia- ‘cept they are doing all sorts of weird things to them. Chocolate chips in them for example. Imagine trying to toast them…..there’d be one gooey mess for a start
Now there's one tradition that should be kept properly. Spicy hot cross buns with raisins, toasted and eaten dripping with butter!
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