Comments on: Baking up Easter memories… http://timeandtide.prepys.com/archives/2006/04/12/baking-up-easter-memories/ Family & Social Issues, Education & Culture, Life & Celebrations! Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:42:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: sexy mom http://timeandtide.prepys.com/archives/2006/04/12/baking-up-easter-memories/#comment-5067 sexy mom Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:31:13 +0000 http://timeandtide.prepys.com/archives/2006/04/12/baking-up-easter-memories/#comment-5067 that last paragraph struck me--family traditions seem to be fast disappearing, with this ever fast changing world. at least, we still have easter and the christmas season, when families gather together. as to my family, i am glad we are able to make it each night--praying together (my husband, myself, and my 6 kids, the eldest who has a family of his own now, has continued on with this tradition in his own home) that last paragraph struck me–family traditions seem to be fast disappearing, with this ever fast changing world. at least, we still have easter and the christmas season, when families gather together. as to my family, i am glad we are able to make it each night–praying together (my husband, myself, and my 6 kids, the eldest who has a family of his own now, has continued on with this tradition in his own home)

]]> By: snglguy http://timeandtide.prepys.com/archives/2006/04/12/baking-up-easter-memories/#comment-4985 snglguy Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:48:53 +0000 http://timeandtide.prepys.com/archives/2006/04/12/baking-up-easter-memories/#comment-4985 Everyone (at least for the Christians) seems to have their own Easter family traditions. Which sadly, are now slowly but surely disappearing as generations pass. Wow, I know about Easter Eggs, but its the first time I heard an Easter Bread... :-) Everyone (at least for the Christians) seems to have their own Easter family traditions. Which sadly, are now slowly but surely disappearing as generations pass.

Wow, I know about Easter Eggs, but its the first time I heard an Easter Bread… :-)

]]> By: Time & Tide http://timeandtide.prepys.com/archives/2006/04/12/baking-up-easter-memories/#comment-4936 Time & Tide Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:30:34 +0000 http://timeandtide.prepys.com/archives/2006/04/12/baking-up-easter-memories/#comment-4936 [...] That being said, let’s go back, all of us to our hopefully happy childhood memories of Easter. Oh, I close my eyes and can smell the one thing that always comes back - ‘EASTER BREAD’ baking all week in the oven. It was one of my mother’s legacies. The entire family - aunts, uncles and so on expected to have their loaves of Easter bread delivered. The recipe going back to four generations or more, my mother was the one who perfected it. For many years, even as a young child, I would watch her with curious eyes and mind as she worked that dough by hand, kneading it over and over till just the right consistency then letting it rise overnight till that dough ‘magically’ doubled or even tripled in size! Boy that always amazed me! It was like magic - go to sleep, wake up and boom! That ball of dough would double. Only later on did I realize that it was the yeast that performed the magic.. lol.. You see this was a double rise bread so on that same morning, she would again ‘beat’ it down and then form the rings in pie pans and let it rise again to double in size before baking it. Read more…. Filed under Contributions by rhodora. Permalink • Print • Email [...] […] That being said, let’s go back, all of us to our hopefully happy childhood memories of Easter. Oh, I close my eyes and can smell the one thing that always comes back - ‘EASTER BREAD’ baking all week in the oven. It was one of my mother’s legacies. The entire family - aunts, uncles and so on expected to have their loaves of Easter bread delivered. The recipe going back to four generations or more, my mother was the one who perfected it. For many years, even as a young child, I would watch her with curious eyes and mind as she worked that dough by hand, kneading it over and over till just the right consistency then letting it rise overnight till that dough ‘magically’ doubled or even tripled in size! Boy that always amazed me! It was like magic - go to sleep, wake up and boom! That ball of dough would double. Only later on did I realize that it was the yeast that performed the magic.. lol.. You see this was a double rise bread so on that same morning, she would again ‘beat’ it down and then form the rings in pie pans and let it rise again to double in size before baking it. Read more…. Filed under Contributions by rhodora. Permalink • Print • Email […]

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