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Easter

The Western Easter, with lamb studded with garlic and rosemary, spiced breads and cakes in every country.

Resurrection of Jesus
Photo: Piero della Francesca, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Spices for Easter

In western Europe Easter dinner is traditionally lamb, roasted with garlic and rosemary or spiced with mint sauce. Italian colomba and Polish babka are flavoured with vanilla and saffron or lemon peel; German Osterbrot and Osterzopf are spiced with cardamom and mace; in Greece, the spiced tsoureki is made on the same day when the churches coincide. Easter breads are a good opportunity to see the cardamom belt of northern Europe.

The spices

CardamomIn Nordic and German Easter breads.VanillaIn Polish babka.

Also part of it, and being written: Mace (In German yeast breads.).

More spices used for Easter

🇹🇷 Turkey and 2 moreMahleb A ground cherry seed used to sweeten Middle Eastern baked goods with an almond-cherry note.Seed · Sweet and mellow · Bitter
About this page

Written by the EveryMasala desk with AI assistance. Background: "Easter" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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