Witam,
The baskets we take to the church with us on Saturday are not the same our grandparents took. At least they say so. "Today you have cars and buses that take you from your flat to the church directly, but you still don't want to carry a full basket of Easter food. Instead of a loaf of bread, you put in your basket just a slice of it.
Instead of a whole big babka, you just put a slice of it or bake a miniature of a real babka.
Real boiled eggs (pisanki) are slowly replaced by chocolate in childrens' baskets".
Was my Grandma right about that? Sure in some parts of Poland (Wielkopolska) you want your kids to play egg hunting. There is no harm when between hard boiled eggs painted, coloured or decorated you place one or two chocolate eggs.
And sure it will not be the best idea to take a huge basket with all food for Easter breakfast (and we all know it is a lot of food) with you to the church. There will not be enough space for everyone's basket.
But you have to admit, that our baskets still contain: kielbasa, chleb (bread), chrzan (horseradish), sól (salt), pieprz (black pepper), babka (or other traditional cake),masło (butter) pisanki and a sugar figurine of a ram.
We are not so bad in nurturing the Easter traditions ;) after all.
See you in class,
Ola
