Easter Traditions

Hot Cross buns and fish for dinner on Good Friday

Easter Eggs on Easter Sunday - just one each and never eaten before Sunday

A family tradition. When I was young, my dad and I went to the eldest lady in each branch of the family and close friends with daffodils early-ish on Easter Sunday. I have continued it to this day.

My mum used to say that too Ow I remembered just as I put a wash load in this morning ….. oops.

Same here Grannybags. Our hot cross buns were fresh from the local bakery too Oldwoman. And always boiled eggs for breakfast on Easter Sunday.

When my DS was small we used to make chocolate Easter nests. I remember when he got to about 12 and he lost interest ?

Good Friday, church service, fish for tea and no treats.
Easter Sunday dinner was always roast chicken or turkey and allowed to eat some of my one and only egg, a Cadbury, dark chocolate egg, in a box made to look like a swan.

Going with my father early on Good Friday to buy fresh hot cross buns from the baker’s, for breakfast.
A great treat, since otherwise we never had cakes or any such thing from a shop.

Apart from that, Easter Eggs on the Sunday, nothing else.

I also always made hot cross buns on Good Friday. Not this year, I am sorry to say.

We were the same Witzend. Had hot cross buns from the baker but never bought cakes, Mum always made them.

With the help of my DDs I crocheted a very long string and wound it round a rolling pin. On Easter morning they would wake to the rolling pin by their beds, and the string winding enticingly out of the door, down the stairs, round the garden etc. until they find their eggs at the end.. I have a photo of them in their nighties and wellies one Easter morning following their string round the snowy garden!

They used to decorate blown eggs by placing tiny bits of wet coloured tissue paper round the eggs and leaving them to dry. When the paper was peeled off, the eggs had subtle patterns on them. We would then attach a string (half a matchstick with cotton tied on and dropped in through the hole where the egg had been blown) and hang them on a beautiful branch of forsythia in blossom - it was a lovely and much anticipated ritual.

Ah - those were the days!

Hot cross buns on Good Friday.
Easter eggs on Sunday.
As a child a new pair of shorts and a tee shirt ready for the summer.

Grandmadinosaur

My mum used to say that too Ow I remembered just as I put a wash load in this morning ….. oops.

Oh dear - some people say that it brings bad luck, although Mum always said you would be washing your clothes in the blood of Christ! Fish for tea was another although as I am allergic to fish I was allowed an omelette.

Strictly no meat and fasting! A somber day when I was a girl!

Good Friday Church services

No work, no games which involved dice or cards, no playing with friends,

Whoops!v I've just done some washing - but it was the church altar cloths which have to be ready to back on tomorrow evening ready for Easter Day, so maybe I'll be forgiven!

A church service where you were given a cross made out of a leaf of some sort….can anyone tell me what?

Hot cross buns on Good Friday. Sometimes a vigil in church (just for a part of the time)
Fish for dinner, we always eat fish on Fridays anyway
My mother used to make coloured boiled eggs for Easter Sunday breakfast using food dye in the water, then church

Easter eggs on Sunday!

I didn't know about not doing the washing on Good Friday until much later when a friend told me so I haven't ever since!

Fish for dinner on Good Friday

Juliet, it's a Palm Leaf Cross for Palm Sunday which is the Sunday before Easter

Juliet that's Palm Sunday, the week before Easter. It remembers Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey and his followers strewing the road with palm branches and clothes. The symbolism of it is that is how royal or important visitors rode into the city, except they were proud enough to ride on horseback, not on donkeys.

Juliet27

A church service where you were given a cross made out of a leaf of some sort….can anyone tell me what?

Palm crosses are given out on Palm Sunday which is the Sunday before Easter.

Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels. Palm Sunday marks the first day of Holy Week.

X post Septimia and JaneJudge

Rolling decorated/dyed hard boiled eggs down a hill on Good Friday, a tradition that continued with my children and GC’s, then hot cross buns from the baker (just got ours). Roast lamb on Easter Sunday, Easter eggs on Sunday, not before.
Mum used to make an Easter cake, I don’t think it was simnel, with nests, eggs and little chicks.

New dress white shoes ones that had to be whitened. Fish on Friday one easter egg on Sunday. We had to go to church but our mum and dad never did.

My Scottish friend mentioned rolling coloured hard boiled eggs down the hill - I'd never heard of it.