Happy Easter from Worthing in 2024

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Happy Easter from Worthing.

Happy Easter from our table to yours!  If any of our Ukrainian friends and family have yet to celebrate Easter according to a different calendar, we will be thinking of you, wherever you are.

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 area of southern Poland, where my mother came from. It’s impossible to get Polish food in Worthing but there is a small selection in Asda, Rustington.

I call it a pseudo Easter bread because it’s a much scaled-down version of what a baker would prepare in Poland. Nevertheless, it’s delicious and there is one portion left. This is a very calorific dish that we only eat once a year. However, the poppy seed cake (also baked by my wife is completely authentic and delicious. Not much of that left either.

This Easter decoration has a Polish twist and represents the Easter I know from childhood. To the left of the photograph is a table decoration I prepared for Easter Sunday. In Polish, we call this type of decoration a stroik. In the centre of the plate, I placed painted eggs (in Polish pisanki ) that represent traditional designs found in Poland.

At the top-right of the photograph is a traditional Polish poppy seed cake also baked by my wife. It has already been partly eaten and it is delicious. In Polish, this cake is called a makowiec.

In the UK and of course in Poland, many Polish families would use hard-boiled eggs that are then painted. As I am not an artist, I make do with wooden representations.

A close-up photograph of the Easter eggs

The large egg at the top of the photograph is a wooden example from Croatia.

The other eggs are from Poland.

Close-up of Easter eggs
Close-up of Easter eggs

Anna from Ukraine explains more in this YouTube video

The art of decorating Easter eggs, is also known in Ukraine, and the techniques used in both countries are similar. Watch this beautifully presented video explaining this tradition.

The tradition of decorating Easter eggs exists primarily in Slavic countries but is also known in Germany. In the UK, this tradition is found in Lancashire and Northumbria as associated with Pace Egg play.

This image shows traditional Northumbrian eggs boiled in wrapped onion skins.

Image attribution: Sasha Clarkson CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Pace eggs from Northumbria
Pace eggs from Northumbria

Happy Easter from Worthing, and may our next Easter celebration be free of war, wherever you are.

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