Polish Easter by Zuzanna Dudziak

Żurek

zuzdud — 2018-03-31 10:02:18 UTC

Żurek, or żur is a soup made of home-made or store-bought sourdough from rye flour. It's garnished with boiled white sausage and boiled egg halves. It is often served in special bred.

Eggs

zuzdud — 2018-03-31 10:06:01 UTC

We boil eggs and then we paint them and draw differnt patterns on them.
We eat those eggs on Sunday Easter mornnig or share with other people.

Mazurek

zuzdud — 2018-03-31 10:10:31 UTC

It is a sweet baked cake. The recipe is considered to have arrived to Poland from Turkey in the 17th century. How the mazurek looks depends on who makes it. The flat shortbread can be made of different kinds of dough and toppings, for example marmalade, chocolate glazing, dried fruit or nuts.

Easter decorations

zuzdud — 2018-03-31 10:13:51 UTC

Easter Lamb

Easter decorations

zuzdud — 2018-03-31 10:16:08 UTC

Easter Bunny

Traditions

zuzdud — 2018-03-31 10:22:43 UTC

1. One week before Easter, Palm Sunday takes place. A large number of branches and dried flowers being brought to church to be blessed.
2. During the Holy Week families visit representations of the tomb of Christ in churches, often decorated in a spectacular fashion for the occasion.
3. On the Saturday before Easter Sunday, Poles prepare Easter baskets - lined with a white linen and decorated with sprigs of boxwood, they contain a sampling of Easter foods: painted eggs (pisanki), a piece of sausage or ham, salt and pepper, bread, a piece of cake and an Easter Lamb made of sugar or cake. They are brought to church to be blessed.
4. On the most important day, Easter Sunday, some go to church at 6am for the Resurrection mass – a ceremonial service and procession. Then families gather to eat traditional Easter breakfast. Most Poles spend than day in a peasefull way with their families.
5. The last festive day is Easter Monday, known as Śmigus-Dyngus (Wet Monday), on which tradition requires that boys throw water over girls.

Traditions

zuzdud — 2018-03-31 10:40:27 UTC

1. Palm Sunday

Tradition

zuzdud — 2018-03-31 10:42:15 UTC

2. Christ tomb

Traditions

zuzdud — 2018-03-31 10:43:44 UTC

3. Easter basket

Traditions

zuzdud — 2018-03-31 10:48:29 UTC

5. Wet Monday