On Easter Sunday, Polish families prepare an Easter basket, filling it with traditional polish food and Easter delicacies and then taking it to church to be blessed by the priest. The blessed food is then laid out on the table on Easter Sunday after mass and the meal that follows is called Swieconka.
What To Put In Your Easter Basket
The list of traditional polish food is simple?
A Lamb, representing the Lamb of God, made with butter, cake, or sugar;
Eggs, the symbol of new life.
Horseradish is a bitter herb signifying the suffering of Christ.
Bread, which symbolizes both the risen Christ as well as prosperity.
Salt, which in the Polish tradition is presented to guests as a sign of welcome and hospitality.
Greenery of some sort, is a symbol of the awakening and greening of the earth.
Swieconka
After mass on Easter Sunday the family gathers around the table and the head of the household cuts a hard boiled egg, blessed the previous day, into segments, one of which is offered in turn to each of the people present along with wishes for long life and happiness on this Easter Sunday.
