Easter

I think that many people do paint eggs..we always do in our family. Also always have hot x buns for breakfast & fish for main meal on Good Friday and hard boiled eggs for breakfast & lamb for main 'family gathering' meal on Easter Sunday. Not religious but feel it is still part of my culture!

Should have added that we had a lovely family celebration over the weekend with the Pesach meal on Friday and church on Easter Sunday morning. And the sun came out for the Easter egg hunt.

I agree the term 'trick or treat' is American, but just as Annobel remembers a similar thing in Scotland with a different name, I remember 'Mischief Night' in Yorkshire (then West Riding, now South Yorkshire). I wasn't allowed to take part but was told that it included tying the door knobs of next door (terraced) houses together so they couldn't be opened, then knocking on the door and running away. I never heard of any treats and I now think it was probably an opportunity to pay off old scores.

Bee20 you missed the most splendid programme on Good Friday "The Preston Passion" which was on BBC 1 at noon. The three dramas were deep and moving; look at it on i-player and let me know what you think.

i saw Easter from Kings - still available on iplayer and beautiful.
Radio 4 had a snippet of a hymn just before the 7am news on Good Friday...

Was really rather disappointed to see the total lack of Easter message on Good Friday or Easter Day from the BBC. OK there was Songs of Praise, but probably recorded in January. Even the news item of the Queen and family going to church in Windsor, was abysmally short - preferring to show the Titanic revival cruise... I thought we were a Christian country.

Love the way Easter is celebrated in Germany with painted eggs.

Can hand on heart say I ate no chocolate yesterday - unusual I know!

thanks for that feetlebaum

glass My sisters and I (doesn't that sound regal) always had new dresses and ribbons for our ringlets (urrhh) made in the same material every easter,mum used to buy the material by the roll from the local market as it was cheaper,I was lucky I was the eldest and always got a new one but my sisters had the hand me downs and the youngest sister had the same dress for up to 3 years.

In the Scotland of my youth, it wasn't 'trick or treat'. It was 'guising' and I think we went into this last year at Halloween. Just another thing that crossed the Atlantic and came back with a new name. We had buns and fairy cakes and now we have cupcakes.

Oh and glammanan -- I believe you'll find links to trick-or-treat as originating in Scotland.

My last girlfriend (and THAT was a long time ago) defined Easter as 'Eating chockie bunnies in bed'! Not a bad judge, at that...

We always got sandals with crepe soles, ankle socks, summer dress and a new cardigan for Easter Sunday.

Easter bunnies originated in the 15th Century from Germany the eggs where the symbol of fertility the German imigrants then took the practice to America in the 1700s. So yes it originated as stated like trick or treat in USA.

Lots of Easter hares in German speaking countries. I have two Easter branches in the window. One is a branch in bud with small wooden eggs on it; it will blossom by the end of the week. The other is a branch which came down in that big storm (1987?) which we painted white and has Christmas ornaments on then and at Easter Bunnies with all sorts of eggs, chicks, birds, butterflies and bees.
Not sick of chocolate...............yet. My novalty eggs from shysal's post went down a storm (as did the creme eggs hidden inside. Sadly the same can't be said for Simnel Cake; new Bosch 3D oven iwas weird; can anyone help. Should I use it as a conventional one. Two tries at Simnel Cake (NEVER failed in ordinary fan) both disasters.

HELP PLEASE!!

p.s i do not get up early to bake... i buy from the baker!

Egg hunts are a thing of my childhood. But they were not chocolate! We coloured boiled eggs..either by boiling them wrapped in onion skin, wool etc or painted them with watercolours on Good Friday then the Easter Rabbit ( Spring Hare?) stole them and hid them in the garden! had to find them on Easter Sunday for breakfast. had to go through the ritual of trying to crack each others egg ..the one that cracked least was champion! Mum also always got up early on Good Friday to make hot cross buns for breakfast.
i keep all these 'traditions' goig in our family now..but not religious..more a recognition of Oestre goddess of Spring!

Pass the rest over to us then grannylin

Anyone else sick of chocolate yet?Had one large egg that I intended to make last a week...but I ate it all and now feel yeuk!

granbunny where do you live in a Christian enclave? I have never outside of a church heard any stranger say 'he is risen'. Hot Cross buns, it's sad they are available all year round. As a child, even though everything else was closed on Good Friday, our local village baker was not. My brother and I used to go and collect the family breakfast - something we really looked forward to. The Easter egg and bunny is the salute to the start of Spring

That and virgin births seem to be common to a lot of them!

absent yes! "Easter" is a corruption of "Oestre" or "Eostre" (linked to Astarte) who was the goddess of dawn / spring and whose special festival was the spring equinox.

I'm not raising anything contentious, but do find it fascinating how many world religions give thanks for new life in the spring - for the resurrection of life, one might say.

I reckon that the Easter bunny, egg hunts and valentines day are American imports. Oh and maybe Trick or Treat as well?

butty!

Not into the religious thing, but as a family we have always loved our hot cross bunnies - particularly with lashings of butter.

Eggs have beena symbol of birth, rebirth and life generally in all sorts of faiths and beliefs for a massively long time - although chocolate ones are relatively recent. The Easter Bunny has surely got to be a Disney invention.