On with the food…
Easter time.
This time of the year is celebrated all over Portugal, on account of this being a Roman Catholic country and all that.
Well, one thing I’ve always regarded as typically ours was Pascal bread.
Until 2003 that is.
That year I was in the US during Easter and a friend of ours, also Portuguese, baked some Pascal bread, the same day another friend of ours, American with Hungarian ancestors, baked two more Pascal breads.
In spite of the different forms and although the Hungarian recipe doesn’t have the eggs baked in the shell inside the bread, the taste was exactly the same.
This may be something quite trivial to some of you, but for me it was a rather unexpected surprise to find something so familiar 9000km away from home.
It was also a lesson: plenty of our "traditions" are shared with people from several other countries who consider those traditions their own.
This time of the year is celebrated all over Portugal, on account of this being a Roman Catholic country and all that.
Well, one thing I’ve always regarded as typically ours was Pascal bread.
Until 2003 that is.
That year I was in the US during Easter and a friend of ours, also Portuguese, baked some Pascal bread, the same day another friend of ours, American with Hungarian ancestors, baked two more Pascal breads.
In spite of the different forms and although the Hungarian recipe doesn’t have the eggs baked in the shell inside the bread, the taste was exactly the same.
This may be something quite trivial to some of you, but for me it was a rather unexpected surprise to find something so familiar 9000km away from home.
It was also a lesson: plenty of our "traditions" are shared with people from several other countries who consider those traditions their own.
posted by DCveR at 10:30 PM
7 Comments:
DC, they look beautiful!
For Spring my mother used to make a bread similar to the top one with just one egg in the middle.
As kids we had races by rolling them down a grassy hill on our farm. Strange but fun!
Yum! I feel hungry now :-)
Mmm, hot, fresh baked bread. With tea. Yes, I had to add tea.
About traditions far from home, and you discover others share yours...it surprises me too, when I discover that. It goes to show the universality of man, eh, D.?
cream: The small ones have only one egg on top here too...
isis: Well, now it is no longer a secret... ;) Take care.
nml: Get yourself some food then, take a look at cream's food blog if you need recipes.
GG: Maybe so, or it goes to show we should keep our recipes secret! Just kidding.
christine: Thanks, have a great holiday too.
TGOV: The eggs aren't actually raw, they are boiled first, then they are cooled down and then they are placed in the dough and baked. I'll be wainting for your Ucranian eggs pics. Have a great Easter!
D,
You've got to stop posting pictures of food, I'm being driven mad, so near yet so far!
dan: No can do. But I'm giving some of the recipes, guess that makes it a little better, no?
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