Passing the baton

Every Easter for many years I have made a Russian Slavonic  pashka, a traditional Easter dessert made with all the rich ingredients banned in the Lenten fasting period: cream cheese, butter, eggs, sugar, dried fruit  and so on.

(Here's one I made earlier, in 2012 to be precise.)

This year I decided to delegate the making to younger son and passed on to him the official mould that fits together to form the correct shape of the pashka along with imprinting Orthodox cross symbols on the sides.

Getting the right sort of cream/curd cheese is always a challenge  so he made his own from 10 pints of milk, soured and drained through cheesecloth.

Not only that, but he made a kulich, a sweet yeast bread for eating   alongside the pashka.
(And jelly for those so inclined.)



Extras show the unmoulding and the anticipation generated - although to be fair the younger members of the family meal (nine of us all told) were more excited about the spoils of the Easter egg hunt.


Elder son made a tall version of  kulich a few years ago. 
Now I can rest easy in the knowledge that the Eastertide baton has been successfuly passed.
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