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Mämmi--Finnish Easter Pudding

The oldest and no doubt the most unusual traditional Finnish dish is mämmi, a dark brown porridge made of water and sweetened rye malt. It is baked in a slow oven in cardboard boxes made to look like birchbark baskets. Nowadays mämmi is a dessert served with cream and sugar, but originally it used to be a Lenten provision, eaten cold as such or spread on top of a slice of bread.

For a long time, Easter mämmi remained a special delicacy of southwestern Finns, until early this century the art of making mämmi spread nationwide, thanks to rural homemaking schools, agricultural societies and cookery books. Finland's independence in 1917 inspired a vigorous search for typically Finnish symbols. Mämmi, an age-old, genuine Finnish folk dish, was accepted as one. Nowadays it is a seasonal product for the bakeries. Rows of boxes resembling birchbark baskets and filled with mämmi appear in the food stores almost as soon as Christmas is over.



Matzo--Unleavened bread eaten during Passover.

Matzo (also Matzoh, Matzah, Matza), is made of plain flour and water, which is not allowed to ferment or rise before it is baked. The result is a flat, crispy, cracker-like bread.

Matzo is the "official" food of Passover. According to the Torah, when the Israelites were leaving Ancient Egypt, they had no time to wait until their bread rose, so they baked it before it had a chance to rise, and the result was matzo (Exodus 12:39). For Passover, the ingredients for matzo are limited to flour and water only, while other ingredients such as eggs or fruit juice may be added to matzo that is produced and consumed during the rest of the year.



Milostiplné prežitie Veľkonočných sviatkov--How you would say Happy Easter in Slovak

Council of Nicaea ruled that Easter Day should be the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox.

No chocolate - I'm having a year off.
New growth in the garden

Octave of Easter--extending from Easter Sunday through the following Sunday. During the Octave of Easter in early Christian times, the newly baptized wore white garments, white being the liturgical color of Easter and signifying light, purity, and joy.


Ostara--ancient Anglo-Saxon lunar and spring goddess named Eastre, Eostre, or Ostara. Her name has come down as Ostern or Easter, the English name of the Christian Holiday Season.

Ostern--The German word for Easter.

Osterhase (Easter Bunny)
The Easter bunny (Osterhase) is one of many traditions that originated in Germany, The first documentation of a rabbit delivering eggs was cited in 1678 by a professor from Heidelberg and is said to have evolved further in the Elsass, Pfalz and the upper Rhine Valley around that time. The Easter Bunny custom was brought to America with German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania.



The first known confectionary Osterhase was created in Germany in the 1800s out of pastry and sugar. This year, more than 60 million edible Easter rabbit replicas will be sold, with chocolate and marzipan the most popular varieties coming out of Germany.

Osterfeuer--Easter Bonfire
Another typical German tradition is the ancient custom of burning the Easter bonfire (Osterfeuer). On the eve of Easter Sunday, many communities light big bonfires across the country to welcome the sun and the spring and bid goodbye to winter. These often elaborate bonfires are usually built long before Easter and much of the wood used is old Christmas trees which have been collected and saved for the occasion. Villages and towns, predominantly in northern and central Germany build fires atop the surrounding hills and set them ablaze at the same time creating a wonderful spectacle

Paschal Lamb
The lamb sacrificed by the Israelites for the Passover. The blood of the lamb was sprinkled on the doors/lintels to protect the inhabitants from the angel sent to destroy the firstborn of the Egyptians.
The meat was eaten with unleavened bread. For Christians, Christ is often called the Paschal Lamb, signifying his sacrifice to save us from our sins.

Quinquagesima--

The name for the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. It was also called Quinquagesima Sunday, Shrove Sunday or Esto Mihi. The name originates from Latin quinquagesimus (fiftieth), referring to the fifty days before Easter Sunday using inclusive counting which counts both Sundays (normal counting would only count one of these). Since the forty days of Lent include only weekdays, the first day of the Lent, Ash Wednesday, succeeds the Quinquagesima Sunday by only three days.

Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Rabbit the symbol of fertility

Special Sunday
Sick of Chocolate


Loved you rabbits firefly

Tintoretto (1518-94)



Crucifixion


Titian



Entombment of Christ

Can't find a U is there a V?

Very sad to see the holiday casualties on the roads.

White Chocolate Egg

XL chocolate egg

Young kids eating Easter Eggs

Zigzagging in the field to find easter eggs.


Historic Assassinations:

Armas, Carlos Castillo - President of Guatemala, Sept.25 1959

Tough one Dutchy

Bandaranaike, Solomon West Ridgway Dias - Prime Minister of Ceylon. Sept 25 1959

Strange A and B have the same date, must have been a bad day.

Carranza, Venustiano - President of Mexico, May 20 1920

(Have checked date again Rod3, Armas was killed on July 26 1957. Thought it was to much of a co-incidence )

Tough subject!

Engelbert Dollfuss (Chancellor of Austria), July 25, 1934

Hello, Dutch-, Rod!

Evers, Medgar W - NAACP'S Mississippi Field Secretary, June 12, 1963


Hi devriesj, good to see you. Off to bed now, catch you again in the morning maybe.

Francis Ferdinand, Austrian Archduke --June 28, 1914

Ghandi, M.