Chocolate and Easter

Where are the Easter eggs?

The custom of giving eggs at the beginning of spring dates back to antiquity. In many cultures, eggs are a symbol of fertility and renewal. There are about 5000 years, the Persians were available already chicken eggs as gifts lucky to celebrate spring! In Egypt, the myth of Osiris, god benefactor and savior, was honored with eggs painted red in token of fertility and eternity. The Romans, who also lent their good effects, in breaking the day of spring to purify the atmosphere. The ritual offerings are also rooted in the Christian world since the Middle Ages. While we followed strictly the rules of Lent, eggs selected and decorated by the students were blessed by the priest.

But it is really from the thirteenth century that the first painted eggs made their appearance in Europe. Originally colored red and decorated with drawings or currencies, chicken eggs were exchanged at the end of Lent, thus symbolizing the end of the privations of winter. From the Renaissance, chicken eggs were replaced by the golden eggs in the courts of European monarchs. Decorated with precious metals, gems and even paintings by famous artists, these objects reached their climax with the famous Faberge eggs in the Russian court in the late nineteenth century. From the goose that lays the golden eggs to the pot of chocolate, there is only one step!

It was not until the mid-nineteenth century that these gifts become delicious chocolate treats. It was then discovered that the confectionery art of molding chocolate eggs. It glides love letters or jewelry. Some are magnificent: the legend of a great admirer of Sarah Bernhardt, the actress was wearing a sigh of seven kilograms, and an English ordered a three meters high topped with a huge bouquet of flowers!