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Easter
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Are there any rituals you do in the UK? Or in general ..for Easter?
Im an American, but we dont really have any "rituals" per say. But decorating your homes (inside and outside) just like at christmas, with lights and figurines..that's gotten really big over here.
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Here in Preston we have egg rolling every easter. Kids and their parents go round to the Park in the City centre and roll their easter eggs down a big hill. The link with to Christianity is most tenuous (much like easter eggs), but someone once told me it symbolises the boulder rolling away from Jesus' tomb, which is boll*cks of course. Its just a bit of fun really.
Traditionally the ladies would wear their new hats to church on Easter Sunday and the younger girls would wear their Easter bonnets that they made themselves (with help).
Simnel cake is eaten - a heavy fruit cake with a layer of marzipan baked in the middle. On top would be another layer of marzipan and thirteen marzipan balls. Some say these represented those present at Christ's last supper, others say that they represent eggs and new life.
Before the Great War (1914 - 1918) servants would have a rare day off to spend with their own families and would take Simnel cake from 'the Big House'.
Of course we hunt for easter eggs, where chocolate eggs are carefully hidden for the children.
We also decorate fresh eggs. This involoves carefully pricking a hole in both ends of the egg and blowing the contents out. Then the eggs are painted or dyed in pans of vegetable dye. Some people prefer to decorate hard boiled eggs and eat them on their picnics in the glorious British countryside, basking in the Easter sun.
Of course Lent is over so we are free to indulge in all those lovely edible luxuries that we have been doing without.
We don't decorate our homes in the Christmas style at Easter, thankfully.
It is the first Bank Holiday of the year of England and Wales, apart from New Year's Day of course, so Easter is much looked forward to as a time to spend with family.
Simnel cake is eaten - a heavy fruit cake with a layer of marzipan baked in the middle. On top would be another layer of marzipan and thirteen marzipan balls. Some say these represented those present at Christ's last supper, others say that they represent eggs and new life.
Before the Great War (1914 - 1918) servants would have a rare day off to spend with their own families and would take Simnel cake from 'the Big House'.
Of course we hunt for easter eggs, where chocolate eggs are carefully hidden for the children.
We also decorate fresh eggs. This involoves carefully pricking a hole in both ends of the egg and blowing the contents out. Then the eggs are painted or dyed in pans of vegetable dye. Some people prefer to decorate hard boiled eggs and eat them on their picnics in the glorious British countryside, basking in the Easter sun.
Of course Lent is over so we are free to indulge in all those lovely edible luxuries that we have been doing without.
We don't decorate our homes in the Christmas style at Easter, thankfully.
It is the first Bank Holiday of the year of England and Wales, apart from New Year's Day of course, so Easter is much looked forward to as a time to spend with family.
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