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Amongst our Ukrainian friends, what do you do for salt in your Easter baskets? Do you follow the Old 'Russian'  practice of binding it with egg white and baking it into a 'cake'? Spasi Khristos - Mark, monk and sinner.
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Dear Fr. Mark:
While regional differences do exist, my family(which hails from Galicia) has never placed salt in its Easter basket.
Yours,
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Dear Kliros Leader,
One may place salt in the basket and we usually do.
My wife thinks of herself as "the salt of the earth" anyway . . .
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Dear Klyros Leader,
What is placed in the traditional Galician Easter Basket? I would be very interested in hearing of other Galician festival customs.
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CHRISTOS VOSKRES! Hi Fr. Mark In my family, we used to use a crystal salt shaker and fill it up because we will use this for the rest of the year. Last year we, I found a website that had hand-made wooden salt containers from Western Ukraine and we got a couple of those. Here's the link www.iarelative.com [ iarelative.com] Does anyone else still save the scraps and eggshells and crush them and scatter them around the house and in the garden? Paska krasna nas vitajet! mark
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Bless me a sinner, Father Mark,
Well, we place kolbassa, of course.
As you know, many Eastern Patriarchs pronounced against the use of kolbassa by the Ukrainian Kozaks.
Kolbassa was a pagan ritual food prepared to honour the boar-god of the forests. Eating it was a form of communion with that pagan deity.
The Kozaks never listened, however.
I've seen baskets with baked Easter hams in our Church, eggs, both peeled, red and decorated, little containers with beets, horseradish, cheese and the sweet paskha breads.
One question re: the Entrance and Departure Bows during the paschal season:
One begins with the Prayer of the Publican - correct?
And then we say the "Shine, shine. . ." with the full prostration at the end.
And then . . ."Christ is Risen from the Dead . . .' Lord have mercy 2x Lord, Bless and ending with: Having risen from the dead, Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, by the prayers of Thy Most Pure Mother, the might of Thy Precious and Honourable Cross, and of the Holy Apostles and all the Saints, have mercy on us and save us for Thou art Good and a Lover of Mankind. Amen."
Correct?
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Dear Mark, My uncles used to do that and we still try to. But if someone didn't, I wouldn't ask them to leave . . .  O.K., bad, bad . . . Khrystos Voskrese! Alex
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Correct on the bows Alex. I thought the 'sausage rule' was largely because of the inclusion of unbled meat in cooking. This explains the labelling of Germans as sausage eaters! This is one major taboo within Old Rite piety. The Old Believers have traditionally been very strict with regard to food. Certain foods are customarily not eaten. Spasi Khristos - Mark, monk and sinner.
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Yes, the eggshells must not be thrown away as they are blessed. Like the ash from the censer they must go into the ground.
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XPUCTOCb BOCKPEC!
Hi Alex!
You wrote:"...I've seen baskets with baked Easter hams in our Church, eggs, both peeled, red and decorated, little containers with beets, horseradish, cheese and the sweet paskha breads..."
In my church and my Baba's church I've seen ham, kolbas, lamb, veal loaf, bottles of wine, spring onions, garlic, krashanky rubbed with vegtable oil til they shine(my Aunt's basket) and one I remember in particular, a sirek that is decorated with home-made candied violets that the lady does every year!
I also hand a hand-painted Palekh egg of the Resurrection from the handle of my basket. I also have a 2-part red plastic egg with a XB on it from Moscow that I fill with jellybeans!
Paska krasna nas vitajet!
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I love the use of violets on the sirek!
I used to use candied primroses for decoration, but these days opt for cloves for decorating the homemade butter and syrnaya paskha.
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CHRISTOS VOSKRES!
Fr. Mark
My friend, Sasha, who lives in Moscow, send me a plastic sirnaya paska mold that has an onion-dome and 3-bar cross on 2 sides and the XB on the other 2 sides.
Spray a little non-stick cooking spray and unmold and it looks GORGEOUS!
I use fresh strawberries to decorate mine around the base and with one on the top and then surround the whole thing in the basket with pysanky.
Paska krasna nas vitajet!
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I was a bit taken aback this Pascha when a priest friend's Serbian popadia made a low fat syrnaya paskha. Low fat... and made by a Serb? Chudny!
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CHRISTOS VOSKRES! Fr. Mark, I made "lo-fat" cheese Paska last year.... The Lord sent an Angel from Heaven and struck it down... it disintergrated and collapsed as I took it out of the mold. Guess the Lord isn't into "lo-fat"... Paska krasna nas vitajet! mark
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Dear Friends, Come on, you guys are making me hungry . . . Alex
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