Pascha Recipes - Easter in the Orthodox Tradition

Easter Recipes:

Orthodox Christians the world over feast on Pascha as they have for two millennia. There are many different traditions and recipes characteristic of local customs but the spirit is the same. This is the Feast of Feasts, the most joyous time of the year.
Greeks and Arabs dye heaps of hard-boiled eggs red and distribute them to everyone. Kids and adults alike tap the end of their egg against another’s to see whose will break first. The tables are covered with lamb, kibbee, kabobs, sweets and cheeses of all kinds.
Ukrainians have spent the last few weeks dying their eggs in the brightest colors with patterns so intricate you think they must have been painted, not dyed. They and other Eastern Europeans, Slavs, Poles, Carpathians, Romanians, Georgians and Russians fill huge baskets with all the foods from which they have abstained these many weeks. Eggs, cream, butter, cheeses, sausages, hams and beef are all loaded into the family basket with amazing breads, wine, sweets and condiments. The baskets are taken to the church for the midnight Resurrection Liturgy where they are blessed in the church hall in the wee hours of Pascha on Sunday morning. Then the feast begins. 
One of the highlights of the feast is the vast array of Cheese Pascha, a sumptuously sweet mixture of sweet cream, cheeses and sweeteners, molded and decorated with bright crosses and sweet candies. Each recipe is a variation on the theme. Recipes are shared and techniques are discussed. The newly baptized and visitors alike, amazed by the vast richness and variety, join in the joy of the feast. Whether you have labored from the first hour of the fast or have only arrived at the eleventh hour, come one, come all, the table is richly laden, enter into the Master’s joy.

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