Easter 2014

Easter 2014 weather has been much warmer than the previous Easter weekends in the earlier years.  The four-day long weekend here on the West Coast of  Finland was mostly filled with sunshine and bright blue skies.  The warm weather was very much welcomed by the many weekend holidaymakers that ventured out to their weekend cottages by the lake and other destinations.  Some weekend holiday people did venture up north to Lapland to go skiing, the snow cover is still on the ground there making skiing possible even when in the south of the country the snow cover has long gone.

Easter 2014 did like most other Easter brings out the traditional Easter foods and other treats. The classic dish in Finland is called mammy (mämmi), it is the traditional Easter food created by the Catholic tradition of Eating unleavened bread on the Easter Friday. Mammy ingredients are Rye flour, Rye malt, water, and sweetened with molasses.  It is baked like a casserole in the oven, it comes out rich brown color looking very much similar like the color of Vegemite. It does have good nutritional value as well as the spiritual value with the Easter remembrance celebration weekend.  There is another article in another blog that I wrote that explains more about the ingredients used and how to bake mammy, follow this link to the article here.