Easter – a food feast by Liz Fielding

Think Easter treats and the first thing that will come to mind is the chocolate egg. My mother always said that the chocolate in Easter eggs was better than any other and I imagine it’s because it has to be very smooth to get that thin, crisp shell. They are still, even with all the amazing chocolate on sale, a very special treat.

But Easter isn’t just about eggs.

It starts on Shrove Tuesday with the pancakes. We have ours exactly the way my mother made them. Thin pancakes, sprinkled with sugar and lemon juice and folded into quarters.

Then comes the Simnel cake, traditionally baked for Mothering Sunday. In the UK we have our very traditional Mother’s Day on the fourth Sunday in Lent, a day when girls in “service” were given time off to visit their mothers. They took home a cake and the wild flowers they picked as they walked home as gifts.

Then on Good Friday we have Hot Cross Buns. Fresh, soft, full of fruit and spices and buttered. I have to confess that these go on sale not long after Christmas and this last weekend my daughter brought us some particularly luscious ones with chocolate, orange and caramel. Yum.

And finally, Easter Day – the time for chocolate eggs and something very special for lunch. A turkey, maybe, if there’s to be a big family gathering, or a piece of pork roasted until the crackling is golden.

What special treats do you look forward to at this time of year? What are your special traditions?

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Happy Mother's Day

We've celebrated Mother's Day back in March here in the UK - it's a long story and it's back there in my blog on the day.

Today I wanted to reach out to all of you who will be honouring your mothers on 12 May so I'm sharing photographs of the women who made me - and who I made. :)






I never knew my grandmothers - all I have are their photographs -

Sarah Woodwards

Elizabeth Miles

This my beautiful mother -

Elizabeth Woodwards

 This is me with my daughter

Liz with Amy Elizabeth

And here are her girls, our future -

Cora Rose

Veda Mae

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

Mothering Sunday

 It's Mothering Sunday here in the UK. Our Mother's Day. This isn't the Hallmark event, but a tradition that goes back to the times when, on the fourth Sunday in Lent, servant girls were given the afternoon off to visit their mothers.

They took them a Simnel cake - spicy, topped with marzipan - and picked wild flowers on the way.



 


All over the British Isles we will be visiting,
or remembering our mothers today.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY