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Friday, April 3, 2009

Easter & Passover Traditions

Do you celebrate Easter or Passover? What are some of your family food tradition for these celebrations?

In Jamaica, where I was born, around this time eating Easter Bun with cheese is the tradition with almost every household. From Holy Thursday through Easter Monday some people with avoid eating meat substitute it with eating fish or just good old bun and cheese. Although bun and cheese is a regular staple in our diet throughout the year, during Easter it is the food combination many savor for snacking or as a light meal.


Some time in 1987 my grandfather lived in San Jose, California and sent me in a letter he wrote the recipe for a bus he tasted. The bun and recipe was given to him by a Mexican woman he met. When he returned to Jamaica, I made that bun for him several times until I found a recipe which was more moist and not as dry as my grandfather's recipe. He was like that - always looking for recipes of food he would love for me to cook or bake for him...everything I made him was GOOD! To this day, I still have the original copy of the letter he sent me in by recipe journal which is a collection of recipes I got from family and friends. Most are handwritten by the sender, which I pasted on the pages of my book.*

Now I bake Easter bun around this time of the year for family and friends. Last year I made only four buns. Why? I was so busy baking cakes, also I wanted to put to rest what my Mom and one sister said, "Jeannie, you are not a real Jamaican because you do not have any Easter Bun."

What is your food tradition? Share your thought and I'll post it here. Send to: cakes@blueivycakery.com

Happy baking & caking,
Jeannie
*I am considering publishing my recipe journal because I have so many stories to share around the family, friends and food in my life.