1. THE PERIOD OF LENT 40 DAYS BEFORE EASTER
ΣΑΡΑΚΟΣΤΗ SARAKOSTI
THE PERIOD OF LENT
40 DAYS BEFORE EASTER

2. I KIRA-SARAKOSTI

3. AN OLD CUSTOM
In the past, women made this lady with flour and water. She had seven legs, a cross on her forehead and no mouth. The legs symbolize the weeks until Easter and people cut off one leg at the end of each week. She had no mouth because she had to avoid meat, milk and eggs during the period of Lent.

4. During Lent, in Greece we eat pickles from various vegetables.

5. Black-eyed peas.

6. Shrimps and Octopus.

7. Chickpeas

8. Cuttlefish with spinach

9. Dolmades with rice

10. SOME SWEETS:

12. Halva with meal

13. ON GOOD SATURDAY:
ON GOOD THURSDAY, WE PAINT EGGS RED TO SYMPOLISE THE BLOOD OF CHRIST AND WE EAT THEM AFTER THE SERVICE OF THE RESURRECTION.

14. We eat a soup made with parts of lamb, such as liver and lettuce.

15. We make a circular bread richly decorated.

16. We make special cookies.

17. AT EASTER

18. We roast lamb on the spit.

20. We make kokoretsi and roast it on the spit.

21. And we eat tsoureki as a sweet, which is made with milk, flour, eggs and butter.

22. THE END