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For Christians, Easter is the most important time of the year. Easter Sunday is a day to remember when Jesus rose from the dead (the resurrection). About 43% of people in the UK are Christian, but most of the country celebrates this season. Here are three things the British eat at Easter:
Easter Eggs
In the UK, we have great chocolate and we eat a lot of it on special occasions such as Christmas Day, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and especially Easter Sunday. Easter eggs are made of white, milk or dark chocolate and are hollow. You can buy huge eggs at any supermarket. People usually give them to each other as gifts.
Eggs symbolise new life because chicks hatch from them. For Christians, the eggs symbolise Jesus' new life after his resurrection. That’s why we eat chocolate eggs.
Hot Cross Buns
Hot cross buns are sweet, lightly spiced and have raisins in them. They have a cross on top that is cut into the dough or piped in icing. They are “hot” because we eat them toasted and with butter.
We can buy them all year now, but they used to be eaten on Good Friday (the Friday before Easter).
Some people think the British started eating hot cross buns in the twelfth Century. Nobody is sure when and why we started eating them though.
Simnal Cake
This fruit cake has a layer of marzipan in the middle and one on top. The top is decorated with a circle of marzipan eggs. It is usually lightly browned under a grill.
The twelve eggs represent the twelve apostles. Sometimes people put eleven marzipan eggs on to represent every apostle except for Judas.
Simnal cake was probably first eaten in the thirteenth Century (or maybe earlier) in the UK.
Have you ever eaten these foods? What do you eat at Easter?
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