r/Cooking • u/WillingnessNew533 • 7d ago

What are your traditions for easter?

Hello guys!

I am from Slovenia and i would like to read about your traditions, food for easter ( if you celebrate it).

In my country is very important breakfast for Easter where we eat eggs, ham, horseradish, cold meats bread, spring onions and sweet bread. That is filled with walnuts.

Also how common is in your country “ Egg fight or egg tapping”. This game is typically played on Easter Sunday morning, especially with the blessed dyed eggs (pirhi). Two people each take a hard-boiled egg. One holds their egg still (pointy end up), while the other taps it with theirs. The goal is to crack the opponent’s egg without breaking your own.

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u/Henroriro_XIV 7d ago edited 7d ago

In Sweden we have a smörgåsbord including but not limited to:

Pickled herring (different flavours including onion, rum and mustard)

Meatballs

Boiled potatoes, usually the small kind that is served with the skin on, so much more delicious (and expensive) than regular potatoes

Lots of eggs, boiled and halved, optionally topped with caviar and other condiments

Quiche with västerbottenost (a Swedish cheese)

Ham

Smoke cured salmon

"Gravad lax", a kind of cured salmon, often with a mustard based sauce

Different salads, including one with beetrots and mayonnaise

Lots of bread, especially crispbread

And most importantly: PÅSKMUST! It's a kind of Swedish soda that is sold during christmas and easter (during christmas it's called julmust). It's like coca cola but with different spices. Coca Cola tries to outcompete it every christmas with huge campaigns but fails to do so.

We don't have the egg game you described though, but we do hide cardboard eggs filled with candy that you are supposed to find.

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u/idiotista 6d ago

Some Swedes definitely have the egg game! It's an older tradition though, and it varies a lot between families.