Orthodox Easter colors

May 2

At home we love celebrations! And we celebrate both Easters, but I particularly love the orthodox one… We take our time to choose the white eggs, (Which are difficult to find lately!) to paint and decor them, and then we make some egg fights! To Greek tradition, Easter eggs should be dyed red, since the red colour represents Jesus Christ’s blood, but we use several colors and make our own decoration…

And each year they are amazingly different!

The eggs fight is exciting! The winner is the one, whose egg will crack the eggs of the opponents, but there it is difficult to find the perfect fighter. Or a sole winner. Some way or another, all the eggs finish cracked at some point…

Nothing better than a great salad aftistic the fight!!

There was a time when the Church also prohibited the consumption of eggs during Lent. In the farms, where they use to produce large quatities, they began to cook them for conservation and consumption in spring, after Easter. But to distinguish them from fresh eggs, they were cooked with a natural coloring that gave the shell a color that allowed them to be distinguished from fresh eggs.

Over time, women began to empty them to decorate them, painting their shells carefully and making drawings with small brushes, on top of which they applied wax to add shine and help preserve them. The motifs are usually geometric, natural or traditional in the area, and the tradition is transmitted from mothers to daughters.