Easter 2018
A note on the paska itself: why it is baked tall, and why the recipe belongs to a specific grandmother rather than to a country.
Christ is risen. A peaceful Easter to your household.
A word about the paska. It is baked tall, in a cylindrical tin, with a domed top, and the height is the point: it is meant to rise, visibly and dramatically, as the whole festival is about rising.
What I have learned over the years is that there is no such thing as the Ukrainian recipe. There is a recipe belonging to a specific grandmother, defended vigorously, and differing from the one two streets away in the quantity of eggs, the presence or absence of raisins, and whether saffron is involved.
I have been served paska by perhaps a dozen families and told each time, with complete sincerity, that this is how it is properly made.
Christ is risen.
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