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What food is eaten at Easter

Eat hot cross buns, heavily oiled fruitcake, roast lamb, eat ham, and eat food in the shape of a rabbit on Easter.

1. Hot Cross Bread

People usually start eating cross bread on Good Friday and eat it until Easter day. This kind of bread with rich cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and other spices, inside the raisins, especially in the freshly baked, steaming hot, tantalizing aroma, tastes fluffy and sweet, eating is unforgettable.

2, heavy oil fruit cake

Westerners love to eat snacks, but different festivals snack varieties are quite elaborate. Heavily oiled fruit cake is their Easter day must-have snacks. This cake, like other traditional English festive cakes, is dense and stuffed with dried fruit, and topped with a thick layer of egg white almond paste.

3. Roast Lamb

Roast lamb is a Western staple on Easter. Jews slaughter lambs on Passover, which are roasted and eaten in bread with bitter herbs, a custom to pray that God's angels won't bring any disasters as they fly over their homes.

4. Ham

American food at Easter is also very distinctive, mainly lamb and ham. The custom of eating ham is said to have been brought by English immigrants. Today, it has evolved into a traditional Easter food. However, people now often eat canned Easter food at Easter.

5. Food in the shape of a rabbit

Another symbol of Easter is the rabbit, which is regarded as a creator of new life because of its strong ability to reproduce. During the holiday, adults would vividly tell their children that Easter eggs would hatch into rabbits. Many families also put some eggs on the garden lawn and let children play egg hunt.