Easter Foods/Traditions

I know I saw this posted elsewhere, but I can't find it.

BF is coming to the US for Easter.  I only found out from him today about the "Eggs".  There just happens to be a UK shop in my town and they have the large Cadbury Eggs filled with Heroes.  I got one of those and I was planning on having a little Easter egg hunt on Easter morning.  No we don't have kids, but we both act like we're 8.  I found these plastic eggs that look like soccer balls - I thought it would be funny. 

ANYWAY...What types of foods do the English typically eat on Easter?  I asked and BF is NO help - he said food.  We are having Brunch with my family. My mother and aunt would like to make something special for him.  My mother said Bread Pudding?  I've never had it or seen it?  If anyone has any suggestions it would be VERY helpful. Thanks!

There honestly isn't any special easter food besides hot cross buns and easter egs.  Some people make easter cakes but that's about it.   The only thing I can think of is lamb but I think that's more a general spring thing than easter.

My relatives do a big roast lamb dinner, but I think that's more their own tradition rather than a typically British tradition.

The other traditional sweet thing (up there with hot cross buns and chocolate eggs) is Simnel Cake. Yum! My aunt always makes one and I'm really looking forward to that! I love marzipan!

Luckily we are vegetarians so no lamb!

I just wanted to make sure that he wasn't going to expect something "traditional".  My family is Italian/American so we have our own Easter Traditions...he'll have to adopt those.

I'm happy I found the eggs!  He'll be surprised about that.

Thanks again!
meka

When I was a kid, it was pretty simple. We had regular Easter baskets in our room when we woke up, and then we hunted around our huge back yard for the dozens of Easter eggs we'd dyed with those Paz kits (remember those?) the night before (I come from a family of eight). Once we found them, my mom made deviled eggs out of most of them, and left a few for those who liked regular hardboiled eggs.

Luckily we are vegetarians so no lamb!

I don't eat red meat either, but I do like going over to relatives' houses for a big roast dinner! There are always roast spuds and at least five different kind of vegetables. I never go hungry!

Paz kits!  I can still smell the vineagar!  It had that little wire thing that you were supposed to use to get the egg out of the dye - it never worked.  My eggs always fell off and back into one of the cups, splashing dye all over the place.  

I always hated the week after Easter...Egg Salad for lunch everday day!

Easter Baskets were the BEST!  Peeps and chocolate bunnies!

It didn't occur to me until my first Easter here that dyeing Easter eggs wouldn't be a tradition, given that most of the eggs one gets here are brown. So I've sporadically settled for doing the Mom/Marge Simpson deviled-egg bonanza.

It didn't occur to me until my first Easter here that dyeing Easter eggs wouldn't be a tradition, given that most of the eggs one gets here are brown. So I've sporadically settled for doing the Mom/Marge Simpson deviled-egg bonanza.

I was at a car boot sale this morning, and one stall had lovely HUGE white goose eggs for sale -- specifically for people to dye for Easter!

How cool, Helen! For the Brits on here unfamiliar with what we're talking about, the grocery stores used to start selling what were called Paz kits at Easter time. They consisted of different-colored tablets that you dropped in cups with vinegar, and then you had a dye in which you soaked white eggs using these awkward wire egg holders. They also included stickers you could put on the eggs, suggestions for multicolored eggs, and the boxes had holes in them in which you put your dyed eggs to soak. It may sound lame, but it's a part of just about every American kid's childhood. Those same eggs would be hidden the next day for an Easter egg hunt, and then it was up to your mom what the hell to do with them.

I never used a Paz kit, but I do know what you're talking about. Part of my childhood was spent in Alberta (Canada) in an area with a huge Ukranian population. My friend's grandmother would always have us over to make gorgeous painted eggs for Easter -- using wax and painting on the dye. Ours were never as good as hers, but it was still fun!

On another Easter egg topic, I found this today and think I might give it a whirl!:
http://www.uktvfood.co.uk/index.cfm?uktv=standard.stepTwo&iID=556940

Neat idea for the chocolate eggs!  Unfortunately, BF would eat all the chocolate before I would get a chance to make them.  He's a bit of an addict.

The dying of Easter eggs was such a BIG deal when we were kids.  I have to pass this on to mine and if we are living in the UK looks like I'll be on the hunt for the goose eggs!  I'll have to remember to check car boot sales. thanks!

I hear that the English have  the traditional Sunday roast dinner.. the lamb dinner was  more  my family's tradition as well.

Neat idea for the chocolate eggs!  Unfortunately, BF would eat all the chocolate before I would get a chance to make them.  He's a bit of an addict.

Mine is an addict, too! Fortunately, he won't be here until Friday so I have all week to work on the chocolate egg project without interference!

A lamb dinner was also an Easter tradition when I was growing up. It had all the symbolism: renewal, rebirth, etc. I was never crazy about it, though. I thought it tasted pungent and was very greasy.