Five ways to celebrate Easter in the Czech Republic.
You also can celebrate Easter like a
Czech, because I'm gonna teach you how.
Let's get started.
Czecking with Katrina.
An American living in Czechia.
Number one, Kraslice.
Kráslice [are] colored Easter eggs.
But Czechs don't simply just color the Easter eggs.
They actually paint them.
And let me show it to you.
In this set up, you have your heating pan
with the wax here
with this little cup, and you just drop the wax
in and let the wax get all melted.
Then you have these pencils.
I'm sure they probably sell actual real tools to
do this somewhere, but my mother-in-law has these things.
Pencils with pins with different size tips.
You take your egg that's been blown out
and made hollow.
People take it, and they take a little knife,
They poke it on each side, and then
they just blow out all the inside.
It's actually difficult.
I tried it one year.
It is working, and it's not breaking.
Do you see the hole? Yeah.
Let's pop that yoke.
See if we can pop that yoke.
I don't think it's working.
I figured it out.
Apparently, you've really got to wrap your lips around that
thing so the air doesn't go out the sides of
your mouth and actually goes into the egg.
I'm getting it. Almost there.
I did it.
I'm quite proud of myself.
I've become more and more like a Czech every day.
I didn't have to do any of these because
my mother in law does them all for me.
So that's nice.
I did this once before, but it was like four or
five years ago, so I don't really remember exactly how.
I don't know.
I kind of suck at this.
Yeah, I suck.
Let's try to put another one right here.
Oops, that really looks bad.
It's all about the fun, right?
It's not like I'm trying to sell mine.
I'm just trying to put them in
a basket and enjoy them for Easter.
The next step in making these Easter eggs
is to drop them in food coloring.
So we have six different colors,
and we have six different jars.
So once your eggs are colored, then
it's time to take off the wax.
For that, you're going to need your
hot plate again and some paper towels.
So you simply take your egg,
you just put it near the heat so
that you can heat the wax up.
And once the wax is hot and melted again,
you simply wipe it off.
As you can see, the wax just gently wipes right off.
Make sure you stay till the end, because
I have a bonus way to celebrate.
that's usually only done in Moravia,
which is the Eastern part of Czechia.
Number two lamb.
To celebrate Easter like a Czech, you
should eat lamb for Easter dinner.
If you can't get your hands on a lamb, then
just eat young meat like veal or a baby bunny,
which I know it doesn't sound very nice,
but young rabbit, let's say it that way.
Oh Boy! Dead rabbit.
Dead Rabbit?
But Czechs love to enjoy lamb when celebrating Easter.
Lamb represents the whole point of Easter,
Jesus being the sacrificial lamb.
Which brings us to number three, Bronic.
Beránek
Years ago, there were many Czechs who
couldn't afford lamb or find one.
So they made Beránek.
Beránek is simply a cake made from flour, eggs
and sugar in the shape of a lamb.
You too can make Beránek,
And here's how.
What you're going to need for this is 185 grams
of flour, four eggs, a packet of baking powder, a
packet of vanilla sugar, 150 grams of regular granulated sugar,
whipping cream that is under 35% fat,
a pan that's in the shape of a lamb,
and some butter in
order to butter and flour your pan.
Now that we have all the ingredients here
in front of us, let's get started.
The first step is to preheat the
oven to 180 Celsius or 350 Fahrenheit.
The next step is to grease and flour our pan.
The next step is to separate our yolks from our whites.
Next, we are going to beat the
yolks with the 150 grams of sugar.
Then we beat the egg whites.
The recipe I found does not say how long, but
I'm thinking since later in the recipe it says to
fold into - I'm thinking it's probably supposed to beat it
until it turns into that white foam.
But now we have this beautiful white foam.
Now in a third bowl, we are to whip the cream.
I whipped it into a foam because I assume
that's the only reason for whipping the whipped cream.
Next, we are told to add the flour, baking powder
and the vanilla sugar into our egg yolk mixture.
I'm not sure I was supposed to do that, but I did. Okay.
Then it says to add the whipped cream.
Next, we are to fold in the egg
white, gently fold in the egg white.
Hopefully it tastes good when we're done.
Fits perfectly.
I guess the author of this recipe knew exactly
what size pan I was going to buy.
Now we are to bake it in the oven.
Set timer. How long?
45 minutes,
45 minutes. Starting now.
Number four, Pomlázka
Make a Pomlázka, which is
simply a whip made out of Willow tree branches.
They take the young branches of a Willow tree
and the men make a whip out of them.
Yes, that's what I said.
a whip.
Okay, like this.
Number five.
Easter Monday.
Yes, Czech have Easter Monday.
I'm not sure why, but there are many
traditions that go along with Easter Monday.
So if you want to celebrate Easter like Czech,
then participate in Easter Monday.
Warning:
Easter Monday isn't quite as fun for women.
Easter Monday is probably quite fun for men.
So the man takes that Pomlázka that I told
that I told you to make,
and he actually whips you with it.
And these spankings...
Oh, our dog doesn't like that at all.
And these spankings will guarantee you
health and beauty for the coming year.
In order to get that you, in turn, offer
a shot of slívovice, or an egg.
All right, I'll take the egg.
Now the bonus tip I was going to tell
you about that they only do in Moravia is
even worse for women.
In Moravia, they take
they take
They douse you with water
instead of whipping you.
And in turn you still have to offer slívovice.
But I'm American,
so I'm taking it myself.
Well, since I got whipped and doused with water,
maybe this year I'm going to be
twice as healthy and twice twice is beautiful.
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