Lazaraki

Lazarákia

Lazaraki ( Greek λαζαράκι pl. Λαζαράκια Lazarákia also known as Lazaroudi λαζαρούδι or pl. Lazarides λαζάρηδες ) is a simple, sweet and tart yeast dough pastry from Greek cuisine . It is a yeast pastry that is usually served in the pre-Easter Lent . It is traditionally served on Lazarus Saturday, the Saturday before Palm Sunday .

preparation

The dough is optically shaped in such a way that it takes the form of a human body, wrapped in linen to commemorate Lazarus who was awakened by Jesus Christ . For the eyes are usually cloves used. As it is a fasting food , lazarákia do not contain any dairy products or eggs and are therefore not coated with them. In its kind, the dessert is closely related to the tsoureki .

Nowadays fewer and fewer people bake this dessert themselves, because it is usually bought as a finished product . According to tradition, one of the prepared lazarákia should always be kept until the next year. Then it should either be thrown into the sea so that fish can eat it, or you can eat it yourself after a year.

Individual evidence

↑ John Sanidopoulos: Lazarakia - Traditional Bread For the Saturday of Lazarus. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
↑ Lazarakia (Lazarus Bread). In: St. Nektarios Orthodox Church of Lenoir City, TN. March 31, 2015, Retrieved October 13, 2019 (American English).
↑ M. Papachristophorou: Myth, Representation, and Identity: An Ethnography of Memory in Lipsi, Greece . Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-1-137-36275-9 ( google.at [accessed on October 13, 2019]).

[1] John Sanidopoulos: Lazarakia - Traditional Bread For the Saturday of Lazarus. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .

[2] Lazarakia (Lazarus Bread). In: St. Nektarios Orthodox Church of Lenoir City, TN. March 31, 2015, Retrieved October 13, 2019 (American English).

[3] M. Papachristophorou: Myth, Representation, and Identity: An Ethnography of Memory in Lipsi, Greece . Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-1-137-36275-9 ( google.at [accessed on October 13, 2019]).