The easter chocolate eggs tradition
The Easter
chocolate eggs tradition for Catholics, comes from a long time ago.
During the lent,
it has become a habit not to eat meat every
Friday, but the old catholics, used to fast also of dairy products
(eggs, milk, cheese, butter, cream, ice cream, yogurt…) so, they couldn’t consume the eggs their hens gave
them. Also, they couldn’t waste them. So they kept all the eggs bathed on a
thin layer of wax so that they didn’t get off.
Throughout
history, the tradition of the thin layer of wax has been substituted by
chocolate, sugar with different colours and sizes.
Nowadays
most of the Spanish catholics follow the tradition of hiding the chocolate
eggs so that the youngest people found
them and believe that the easter hen (or sometimes the Easter bunny) has brought
them.
During Eastern,
most of the bakeries work on easter dessert and mainly on chocolate eggs
to create the best ones.
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