Surely, those of you with a sweet tooth have noticed the chocolate eggs that fill the windows of pastry shops and you have remembered the Easter Bunny (although this little animal does not come to Spain 😉 ) and your home. There are many theories about the origin of Easter eggs. One has to do with the Ice Age, when humans ate the eggs of birds that came from the south, while waiting for other animals to hunt them. In the Middle Ages, the prohibition for Catholics to eat meat and eggs during Lent was broken at Easter, when eggs that had been preserved by coating them in wax and marked for as long as they were inedible were eaten before the new ones. It was also a symbol of life after the cold of winter. These traditions later went to America. In the 19th century, in some European countries they began to decorate the eggs with more sophistication, using chocolate and sugar flowers.
In Spain, there is a sweet that we recognize more as our own, related to eggs and Easter: La Mona de Pascua (with some variations in its name depending on the area: for example, in Asturias it is called "la bolla", in the Basque Country "opilla", and there are more names). It is a kind of cake with a boiled egg or several as decoration. The name comes from the munna or mouna, an Arabic term that means "provision of the mouth", a gift that the Moors made to their lords. Traditionally, catholic godparents gave the mona to their godchildren on Easter Sunday, after mass. In some parts of Spain, it is still customary for families to gather on Easter Monday to eat mona in the open air.
Taste it!!!!
https://recetasdecocina.elmundo.es/2020/03/mona-pascua-receta-tradicional-semana-santa.html
