Easter Traditions

Salmon with new potatoes and peas on Good Friday and roast lamb on Sunday.
Always had a new outfit to wear on Easter Sunday.

We were not allowed to sew on any Sunday.

3pm kissing the cross service in church,even when I started work our boss would yell its time all you "tims" headed to church .For Easter Sunday it was a new outfit for us all,bags hats and gloves included .Non Catholics didn't do that tradition they got new outfits for the first Sunday in May ...I have no idea why .Maybe someone here would know ?
Mum always bought an easter cake as she wasn't the worlds best baker ,sometimes it didn't make it to Easter Sunday ,she was very much a lets enjoy it now person so often we had it on the Saturday after dinner ,luckily one of the Aunts would bring a spare for Easter dinner .

Memories of Good Friday as a child in the fifties were of a very sombre day. The only shop open was the bakery for Hot Cross buns, which we only had on that day. There was a long Church service, in a bare church with no flowers, which lasted for several hours, but you could go for parts or all of it. When I was very small it seemed interminable.
Then on Easter Sunday, eggs, though nothing like the huge variety filling the shops now,and new clothes when they could be afforded.

Paddyann.
We were brought up Methodists, and our new outfits were always bought for Whitsuntide. New shoes, new dress, etc.

I remember Easter as many of the posts here. IE Good Friday a very sombre day, Easter Sunday the day for rejoicing and treats. Feel sorry how far we have come from this while still a nominally Christian country.

Definitely lamb on Easter Sunday (just as we always had veal on Mothering Sunday) and never any Easter eggs until Easter Day itself...

Are Easter egg hunts a new idea ?I don't remember them from my childhood.

Rolling eggs on easter monday. Still do this with my grandchildren whatever the weather.

We only had Hot Cross buns on Good Friday. My mother disliked them and disliked Good Friday, as she never could understand that Christ had to die to save us, although she was quite devout.

We weren't allowed to play outside on Good Friday or on Sundays for fear of offending the neighbours.

Easter decorations were put on the dining room table and sideboard on Easter Saturday, as my mother felt it would be disrespectful to have them up on Good Friday.

I realise how odd this sounds, but she never reconciled herself with having seen people killed during the war.

We were never allowed to eat Easter eggs before Easter Sunday.

We had new clothes for Whit Sunday too (new summer dress each) not for Easter.

Not a religious upbringing but we always maintained traditions like it had to be fish on Good Friday and Mum still does not question these but blindly follows them. Roast dinner on Easter Sunday but can be chicken, lamb or beef. Easter eggs were always sat on the dining table when we woke on Easter Sunday. Years ago DH decided in his wisdom he would create an Easter Egg hunt instead for GC's at our house which the GC still wish to maintain but all the expense and hard work are left to me now....only a few more years but I can't complain really it is nice for them to still have a bit of magic instead of all the electronics they fill most of their time with.

No, shops and businesses were open in Scotland on Good Friday which was not a public holiday.

My father remembered being expected to attend lectures at St. Andrew's on Good Friday in the 1940s.

Forgot to add it is not a simple look and find Easter Egg hunt but they follow clues which as they get older need to be more sophisticated and complicated. Well I suppose that is also good for keeping my brain working....

Boiled eggs coloured with food colouring on Easter morning. I did that for my daughter too. My mother and grandmother would not put washing out any Sunday, let alone Easter Sunday. Apparently, it was OK if there was a baby in the house (terry nappies in those days!) or if one of the people in the house was ill and needed constant bed linen changes.

Stations of the cross in church, hot cross buns fresh from the bakery, church service on Easter Sunday ( Easter egg when we went home.)The Easter egg we had was always from Thorntons and was chocolate with iced flowers on it wrapped in cellophane.We only had one Easter egg, but it was a good one.
Boiled eggs which had painted faces on them.

We always have fish on Friday and on Good Friday my Italian DH won't eat meat at all. I was surprised that here it is treated as a normal working day !
My mum always dyed boiled eggs for breakfast on Easter Sunday and I did the same for my children and only Easter eggs on Sunday, no alternative gifts( it's not Christmas)!!

I always remember Easter Saturday night. My sister and I were given a fresh hens egg each to decorate usually with paint. Since our Dad was pretty bald we usually drew him. The eggs were boiled for breakfast on Easter morning. We carried on the tradition with our own children

Although mum declared herself a Christian she never attended church apart from Christenings, weddings and funerals. I think she only adhered to no meat to please my nan. Dad was an aitheist

Going off on a tangent here but a couple of years ago I overheard two girls (not children, young ladies) discussing Easter;
One said “I’m not sure what Easter is really, I think it might be Jesus’s birthday or something”!! ?

No vindictive sky-fairy is going to tell me what I can and can’t eat on any day of the year. Just another day.

Well we have traditional Passover. My sister and I have worked hard to prepare a blockbuster meal for 15 taking the vegans, vegetarians and special dieters into consideration. We will tell the story of the flight from Egypt and make sure the children all take part in the telling to understand that we must always be ready to escape danger.

By the way The Last Supper was a Passover meal

Hot Cross buns today for breakfast
Fish for dinner
Do not do the washing on Good Friday

It is not really to do with religion, Saggy, it is just tradition, as are Easter eggs.

We used to have dyed boiled eggs on Easter Sunday morning; I think my mother used cochineal to dye them.

Have just done the traditional Good Friday walk,with four grandchildren.. from Chorley Old Rd..all the way to Rivington Pike..am shattered.. tea for six to prepare.. feel like a zombie haha