We love these crisp little Easter biscuits so much that we’ve made them once a week since the Easter season began. They are simple and humble; not too sweet but greatly enhanced by the (very British) addition of dried currants and candied citrus peel. They’ve made a nice little Sunday treat, both at home and … More Mary Berry’s Easter Biscuits, all season long.
I had intended to bake traditional Polish Babka this week, for the Third Sunday of Easter, but plans change. My young son– too sick for school, but not too sick to be up and about– asked to bake something from The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion, which I checked out from the library. One-on-one time … More Flexible plans and crunchy biscuits
Easter, like Christmas, is usually celebrated as a single day– however, both holidays are actually much longer than many people realize. Eastertide is 50 days long, beginning on Easter Sunday and ending with Pentecost. This means there are seven Sundays in the Easter Season, and I plan to use every one of them as an … More Italian Easter Cookies
As spring days go, our Easter Sunday was a paragon– warm and sunny, with the scent of violets in the air and a sprinkle of tiny flowers in the lawn. Brunch was a veritable feast, an abundance of food lovingly prepared by extended family. I’d been baking feverishly for several days, and contributed four kinds … More Easter Delights
Long ago in England (and still in Hereford) clergymen would distribute “pax cakes” to their parishioners at the end of Palm Sunday services, with the words “peace and good neighborhood.” The idea was for neighbors to end disputes and quarrels before Holy Week began. Sometimes they were small fried pancake-like treats, and sometimes they were … More Palm Sunday: peace, good neighborhood, and sweets.
In Due Season 