Tips for baking: Easter and traditional Slovenian potica

Easter is the most important Christian holiday on which Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. The date of the celebration is determined by the lunar calendar, because believers celebrate Easter every year on the first Sunday after the first full spring moon. According to tradition, strict fasting is ordered on Good Friday, and on Holy Saturday, the dishes that end up on the table for Sunday breakfast are blessed. Ham and dried meat symbolize the body of Christ, red pyres represent drops of blood, horseradish nails, and sprigs represent a crown of thorns. The holiday has its roots in Judaism, as well as in ancient pagan customs, when the arrival of spring was celebrated. On the holiday of spring (vuzem) and on the oldest Christian holiday, the festive table is traditionally covered with delicacies such as lamb, ham, pirhi, horseradish and of course the Slovenian potica, without which we cannot even imagine Easter. In Slovenia, we know more than twenty types of potica, among which the most indigenous is the walnut.