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Type | Sweet bread |
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Place of origin | European / Eurasian countries with predominant Orthodox religion |
Main ingredients | Milk, butter, eggs, sugar |
Paska (Ukrainian: пáска, romanized: páska; Georgian: პასკა, romanized: paska, literally: "Easter"; Romanian: pască; Hungarian: pászka, ultimately from Imperial Aramaic: פסחא, romanized: pasḥā, literally: "Passover")[1] is a Ukrainian Easter bread.[2][3] It is particularly spread in Central and Eastern Europe, and countries with cultural connections to the ancient Byzantine Empire, Eastern Orthodoxy or Eastern Catholicism. Easter breads are a traditional element in the Easter holidays of Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. It is also a common tradition amongst the Assyrian-Chaldean-Syriac diaspora. It is also eaten in countries with large immigrant populations from Central and Eastern Europe such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
In Russian, paskha is the word for Easter; in Ukrainian, the word is spelled paska. For Russians, paskha is the also the name of a special cheese dessert made only for Easter, always accompanied by the Russian Easter bread kulich, a tall, cylindrical, yeast-raised, sweet bread decorated with white icing. For Ukrainians, however, paska is the name of their own Easter bread.
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