Easter does its / day too

Two days, when you don’t have to go to a « damn job » – it seems to be the average Latvian associating Easter. If there are young children in the family, some traditions are still in place, but those whose lifetime are coming to the end, interest in the holiday is less and less. Unless the village has applied for a beloved granddaughter or grandchild.

Easter is a Christian festival, which honors Jesus Christ, who, crucified and buried, is risen to bring his faith to the rest of the world. However, this holiday is also noted by people who are not considered believers – simply because it is adopted, it is a tradition that is rooted from generation to generation. The rituals of the celebration tend to be very different, and what seems to be normal for some will not always seem to fit the holidays to others.

Without eggs in no way

Not to mention Easter eggs is an impossible mission. All the more so because their painting techniques are quite different. In my childhood – that is, a half -century – a classic was the eggs of eggs with all sorts of garden greens, wrapping your time -served (but well -washed) capron sock and cooking onion peel in broth. At that time, both red onions, whose bark gives the egg a more intense shade, in Latvia, even if the tumor, had to be very small and had to put up with the fact that Easter delicacy was only brown in yellow.

For a couple of years I have experimented with egg dyeing products such as mummy nail polish and a brilliant green alcohol solution stolen from the grandmother’s wardrobe (usually called Zelonku). It was already bright and nice, but as adults correctly pointed out, its eggs were no longer edible, because « all the chemistry has sucked in ». I didn’t even try to test it, but I quickly realized that the hardness of the shells was not encouraged by such treatment, because my colored eggs were bumped in the first battles. The grandmother of the chemically treated shell then stored in a pile of compost, but the rest, finely chopped, gave the chickens.