One Easter custom that sprang up over time was creating a butter lamb for the occasion. This isn't just a roasted cut of lamb encrusted in butter, but a miniature sculpture of a lamb, made of butter.

butter lamb, Easter cheese (cirak) and nut roll and take it to church to be blessed on Holy Saturday. These days, we serve paska on Easte Sunday with Easter ham, kielbasa from our local Polish store, ...

The colourful Polish tradition of making ‘pisanki’, or Easter eggs, is more or less a thousand years old. There are dozens of regional varieties, and the most outstanding specimens are exhibited in ...

Easter, also called Pascha – the celebration of Christ’s resurrection – is the oldest and most important Christian holiday. In Poland, it’s celebrated by Christians of various denominations. Let’s ...

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When buying lamb, choose the leanest cuts with firm, creamy-white fat (although fat colour alone should not be used as a reliable indicator of quality). Avoid cuts with excessive fat or with fat ...

If you're planning to stuff it, ask your butcher for a well-trimmed, boned breast; avoid using anything too fatty in the stuffing as the lamb has plenty of its own fat already. A whole breast will ...

In the Polish town of Zagan, there's no time to lose. Leaks have appeared in one of the flood walls so now the army is rushing to plug them. A line of soldiers passes sandbags to each other until ...

We may not be seeing extended family this weekend, but there’s no reason not to celebrate Easter at home. Phil Vickery joins us with his mouth-watering roast lamb recipe, perfect for a Sunday lunch.

Lamb is a good source of haem iron, so Kathy Paterson ensures that it's on the weekly menu. Almond butter is available in health shops and speciality food stores. You could also use lamb rump for ...

A Polish artist has sparked horror by standing at the Auschwitz concentration camp just days before Oct. 7 with a sign comparing Israelis to the Nazi war criminals who exterminated them in the ...