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Article: All rise
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- April 13, 2003
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THERE are many traditional Easter cakes and desserts made all over
the world. Russians have the delicious cheesecake-like dish called
paskha (from their word for Easter), which is traditionally served
with kulich, a tall cylindrical cake flavoured with dried fruit, nuts
and spices and decorated with a single white candle. On Easter
Saturday evening the kulich (and sometimes the paskha) is taken to
church to be blessed. Then on Easter Sunday, both form the
centrepiece on the Easter table. The paskha is traditionally made in
a special wooden pyramid-shaped mould (although a terracotta
flowerpot can just as easily be used) and then decorated with dried