Uskrs

Uskrs is Easter in Croatia, a public holiday whose date changes each year with the Western Christian calendar, usually between late March and late April. Because most Croatians are Roman Catholic, the day is strongly tied to church, especially the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday and Mass on Easter morning. Before Uskrs, families prepare pisanice, decorated eggs that may be dyed with onion skins or made with wax-resist patterns, flowers, or Christian symbols. In many towns and villages, people bring a wicker basket or cloth-covered tray of Easter foods to church to be blessed on Holy Saturday. The basket often holds hard-boiled eggs, ham, horseradish, bread or cake, and sometimes spring onions and radishes.

Easter Sunday usually begins quietly at home or with morning Mass, and then the blessed food is eaten for breakfast. A typical table includes sliced cooked ham, eggs, young onions, radishes, and grated horseradish, with salt, bread, and cakes; families often crack eggs against each other in a simple game to see whose shell stays unbroken. People greet one another with Sretan Uskrs, meaning Happy Easter. Later in the day, relatives visit, lunch is larger, and regional baking appears: in Dalmatia, the Kvarner area, and Istria, many homes make pinca, a round sweet bread marked with three cuts on top before baking.

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