Paska (bread)
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Paska is a Ukrainian ritual bread served at Easter. Paska is an enriched bread, using butter, eggs and sugar in the making of the dough and an egg/water mixture is used as a glaze. It is generally cylindrical, decorated with braided dough, rosettes or Easter eggs (pysanky) at the base.
Like many objects in Ukrainian religious rite, Paska has a contested symbolism relating to the rites of spring, which predate the introduction of Christianity to Ukraine.
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- 'Spotlight on paska and pysanky.' The Ukrainian Weekly. 30 April 2000.
