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Happy Easter from Worthing
Happy Easter from Worthing – From our table to your table
We had a traditional Easter breakfast today, expertly baked by my English wife. This pseudo-Easter bread with a Polish bacon joint is a recipe from the Cieszyn Silesia region of southern Poland, where my mother came from. It’s impossible to get Polish food in Worthing, but there is a small selection at Asda in Rustington.
I call it pseudo-Easter bread because it’s a scaled-down version of a Polish recipe. Still, it’s delicious, and only one portion remains. We enjoy this rich dish just once a year. Meanwhile, the authentic poppy seed cake, also baked by my wife, is nearly gone too.
This Easter decoration has a Polish twist, reflecting my childhood traditions. To the left in the photo is a table decoration I prepared, known in Polish as a stroik. At the centre are painted eggs, or pisanki, which feature traditional Polish designs.
At the top-right of the Easter table photograph is a traditional Polish poppy seed cake, called makowiec in Polish, which my wife also baked. It has already been partly eaten and is delicious.
In the UK and Poland, many Polish families paint hard-boiled eggs. As I’m not an artist, I use wooden versions.
A close-up photograph of the Easter eggs
In the close-up photograph, the large egg at the top is a wooden example from Croatia.
The other eggs featured in this photograph are from Poland.
Anna from Ukraine explains more in this YouTube video
Decorating Easter eggs is also a Ukrainian tradition, using similar techniques. Watch this video to see the tradition beautifully explained.
This tradition is found in Slavic countries and Germany. In the UK, it exists in Lancashire and Northumbria as part of the Pace Egg play.
This image shows traditional Northumbrian eggs, which have been boiled in wrapped onion skins.
Image attribution: Sasha Clarkson CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Happy Easter from Worthing. May next year’s celebration find the world at peace, wherever you are.
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