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From: "Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong" <Dutchmatters at comcast.net>
Subject: Easter Meals

Hello Ron, if this idea fits with the lowland mandate, please post it.
If not, I hope you had a good Easter. Jacqueline

Hallo Ron and Other Lowlanders, Linguists must eat too!

Yesterday, while preparing Easter dinner for friends and family, I had
an idea.

Easter in all its religious (including pagan) forms or non religious
spring festivals, seem to be celebrated the world over.

There must be ritual meals associated with it all over the world and
therefore also in the lowlands.

The bible speaks about the "Easter Lamb" and Safeway would like to
convince us in the US to jump on that bandwagon, but growing up in the
Netherlands we never had lamb for Easter. It turns out that in the area
around the southern Mediterranean the lambs are being born in late
January/February, but in the Netherlands that does not happen until
April.

I would love to hear from all of you, what you ate at Easter.

In my own family it was Backhanderln, with apple sauce, green beans and
potatoes (mothers side), but I have never been able to copy that taste
exactly, or we ate a first course of Asparagus, ham and hard boiled eggs
with a lemony butter sauce with nutmeg, salt and pepper, followed by cow
tongue with a sour sauce, green beans and potatoes. Since this came from
my paternal grandmother, I would not call this lowland cuisine. If you
want the recipes, I will send you what I have.

Happy "Tweede Paasdag" Jacqueline

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Delectables

Hi, Jacqueline!

It fits, it fits!

I guess you haven't been on the List long enough (though happily feeling
like an integral part of it, hopefully also to yourself) to know that,
yes, we do eat and even talk about it -- happily, in many cases.  After
all, food traditions are parts of culture and have their own lexical
registers.  So it's all quite legit.  ;-)

I don't remember a set Easter food tradition in my house, though eggs
tended to be part of it, and there were bits that seem "suspiciously"
Slavonic to me, assumedly because of the predominantly Eastern origin of
my family.  As you may know, Easter tends to be a big deal in
Slavonic-speaking parts, including among Germany's Sorbs (Lusatians) that
have famous traditions like "Easter Riding" and "Birds' Wedding."

http://www.tcm-kp.de/sorbbrauchtum/osterreiten/
http://www.radibor.de/braeuche/osterreiten.htm

http://www.cottbus.de/kultur/tradition/40000245.html
http://www.radibor.de/vh/

http://www.hoyerswerda.de/tourismus/tag_braeuche_sorb.htm

I remember a couple of Easters when my father managed to organize a lamb
roast, specifically of a _haydsnuk_ / _Heidschnucke_, a type of sheep
apparently unique the the Lunenburg Heath or to Lower Saxony
(http://www.nas.boku.ac.at/1223.html).  So there seems to have been some
lamb thing going on, the old sacrificial lamb assumedly, going back to
biblical days, supposedly connected with the Muslim _qurban_.

I knew and still know some people that eat rabbit on Easter, and my father
once tried to introduce this tradition, unsuccessfully.  This has always
seemed very strange to me.  ("Oh, look! If it isn't cute Mister Easter
Bunny! Now let's break his neck and chomp on him!")  I suppose this has
something to do with internalizing spring's fertility, just as when eating
eggs and chickens on Easter.

I know people in the US that go out of there way to get reindeer meat for
a Christmas roast.  Now, that ...!  ("Look! It's Rudolf with his lovely
red nose! Yummy! Quick! Get the gun!")

Enjoy!
Reinhard/Ron

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