Easter table

The Easter table is designed to emphasize the greatness of this holiday. Earlier in well-to-do families it was customary to put whole forty different dishes - as a reminder of the forty days of Lent,preceding Easter. Of course, it is not necessary to be so sophisticated, the main thing is to take care that obligatory dishes are present on the festive table.

Main Easter dishes - it's colored eggs, Easter cake and cottage cheese. Each of these dishes has its own symbolism, which we will talk about later. In addition, the Easter table bake rum women and honey cakes in the form of animals, prepare a variety of dishes from meat. But the fish on the Easter table are not accepted, although there are no prohibitions on this score.

Hot dishes for Easter are not usually cooked tonot to force the mistress to run from the festive table to the stove and back, but to give her the opportunity to celebrate with everyone calmly. It is customary to cover the Easter table with a light tablecloth, ideally white. The Easter table must certainly be beautiful, plentiful and tasty.

Easter cake

The Easter cake, consecrated in the church, is the obligatory dish of the festive table. The cake is made from a very sweet yeast dough, thanks to which the cake is not stale for a long time. The size of the cake can be different, but it must necessarily be high. In the cake often add candied fruits, dried fruits, spices, nuts, and top cover with powdered sugar or glaze.

It is with the consecrated Easter cake begin the Easter meal, fasting after the Great Lent. Most often, this happens at home, when the head of the family shares the Easter cake according to the number of household members. But sometimes Easter cake is straight in the church, right after the end of the Easter service, treating each other's pieces and priests with pieces of his cake.

Curd Easter

The traditional Easter table does not dispense with the cottage cheese Easter - a special dish made from cottage cheese, which is prepared only once a year especially for the holiday of the Bright Christ Sunday. Easter has the form of a truncated pyramid, which symbolizes the Holy Sepulcher. To make Easter, you need a special demountable form of wood - a pasochnitsa.

On the inside of the plates, from which is madepasochnitsa, cut out the letters XV - the initial letters of the words that make up the traditional Easter greeting "Christ is Risen!". In addition, on the plates are cut out symbols of the suffering and resurrection of Jesus Christ - a spear, a cross, a cane, sprouts, flowers, sprouted grains. All these images are imprinted on the finished Easter.

Painted Eggs

What Easter table without dyed eggs? According to tradition, the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles MaryMagdalene came to the Roman emperor Tiberius, announced the resurrection of Jesus Christ and presented him with a chicken egg. The Emperor did not believe, saying that this can not be, just like a chicken egg can not be red. After these words, the chicken egg, which the emperor held in his hand at that moment, became red.

Red is the symbol of the blood shed by Christ for all people. But apart from the red Easter eggs color and inother colors. Easter eggs are usually painted on Pure Thursday, and they are consecrated on the night of Great Saturday on Sunday. You can simply paint eggs with onion husk or food coloring, and you can work and paint an egg with unusual patterns, turning it into a real work of art.

Easter is a holiday celebrated with the family. Let the beautiful and plentiful Easter table become a symbol of prosperity and prosperity in your family.