Paska (bread)

Paska
	Traditional Ukrainian paska bread with a pysanka and willow switches
Type	Sweet bread
Place of origin	European / Eurasian countries with predominant Orthodox religion
Main ingredients	Milk, butter, eggs, sugar
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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.

^ "Артос: пасхальный хлеб". Православный журнал "Фома". 2018-04-14. Retrieved 2019-02-25.
^ Hudgins, Sharon (2018). T-bone whacks and caviar snacks : cooking with two Texans in Siberia and the Russian Far East. University of North Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-57441-714-2. OCLC 1013516614. 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.
^ "Traditional Easter in Slovakia". slovakia.travel. Retrieved 2024-01-02.