Easter basket. How to collect and decorate it?

On Holy Week, the hostesses begin to prepare for the march to the temple. Cakes are cooked, Easter cottage cheese is prepared and eggs are painted. Only every time there is a question about what to carry all this yummy for consecration. For this, the Easter basket is perfect. This is an indispensable attribute of the holiday.

What is the Easter basket and where can I find it?

The Easter basket is called as the very tank, in which people carry the products to the church, and the entire traditional set for sanctification on Easter. If we are talking about the thing itself, then it can be bought in the market or in a specialized store. It can be both woven from a rod, and an ordinary plastic basket. It all depends on your financial capabilities or preferences. It is advisable that they use it only on a holiday, not used for harvesting or hiking in the forest for mushrooms. But if there are no other options, you can do with the old waste basket. Then you just have to decorate it more.

What products include Easter baskets?

On this account, there are many different opinions and options for filling. Consider the most common of them:

• Kulichi. Without them, a holiday can not be held in any house! Therefore, they are obligatory in the temple. You can buy already ready or bake it yourself. If the house has children, better arrange a holiday and cook cakes at home.
• Eggs. Orthodox traditionally choose a red color for staining eggs, remembering the biblical story with Mary Magdalene and the Roman ruler. Although you can not limit your imagination, use all kinds of colors, shades and types of jewelry.
• Cahors. On Easter, you can bring the Cahors to the temple, the priest will consecrate the wine. Subsequently, it can be drunk during illness or on holidays.
• Curd Easter. It is usually done at home. The proposed options from supermarkets do not go to any comparison with domestic ones manufactured independently.

This is a traditional set, which can be seen at the consecration in the temple. Also some people add sausage or salt.

How can the Easter basket be decorated?

Here everything depends on your imagination and ability. There are several things that are best not to violate. But they are dictated only by considerations of sanitation and hygiene. So, at the bottom of the basket it is better to lay a linen napkin. Even if you use this capacity only for Easter, it is unlikely that it is so sterile that you can put cakes right at the bottom. If the paint, which was painted eggs, not super-resistant, then on the basket itself there may be traces. Let them be better on a napkin! And after you lay all the foods, cover them with an embroidered napkin. If it is not available, simply select a beautiful fabric towel with the appropriate theme. And elegantly it will turn out, and products will protect in the street from a dust and exhaust gases of cars.

You can decorate the basket with flowers, ribbons or make fakes for Easter. It can be hares, artificial eggs and much more! That's all, your easter basket is ready! Now you can safely carry such a masterpiece with the yummy in it!