If you make the lamb cake as a family tradition, what is your ancestor's ethnicity and religion?

[Anonymous]

Let's see if we can figure out where these things hail from. Let's just focus on the ethnicity of the ancestor who gave you (or your mother etc) the tradition:

My grandma, in Alberta, Canada, made this every year. She was a Polish Roman Catholic and was born in around 1887. She was from a village that thanks to moving borders, is now in the Western Ukraine. At the time it was an area called Galicia and controlled by the Austrio-Hungarian Empire.

Ok who and where did you all inherit your lamb cake tradition from?

[Anonymous]

You mean a cake made in the shape of a lamb, right? (not a cake made from lamb meat).

I got it the tradition (and the cake mold) from my grandmother, born in England and immigrated to the US in the 20s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You mean a cake made in the shape of a lamb, right? (not a cake made from lamb meat).

I got it the tradition (and the cake mold) from my grandmother, born in England and immigrated to the US in the 20s.

Ha ha yes I meant the cake made in the shape of the lamb, for Easter! Was your grandmother Roman Catholic, or Anglican or something else?

[Anonymous]

my grandmother used to do this, though not regularly, and I've done it a couple times. We're died in the wool generic American of mixed (northern euro) background, protestant. We're the type of people who will see something cute in a cookbook and decide to make it.

[Anonymous]

Polish catholic.

[Anonymous]

Origin and geography, posters!

I am intrigued because I did not grow up with the lamb cake -- I first learned about it from Joy of Cooking (written by someone of German ancestry who was born in St Louis).

[Anonymous]

Southern (WASP). Baptist.

[Anonymous]

German catholic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You mean a cake made in the shape of a lamb, right? (not a cake made from lamb meat).

I got it the tradition (and the cake mold) from my grandmother, born in England and immigrated to the US in the 20s.

Ha ha yes I meant the cake made in the shape of the lamb, for Easter! Was your grandmother Roman Catholic, or Anglican or something else?

Anglican but later converted to Catholicism. I don't know how or why she had the mold or made the cake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Southern (WASP). Baptist.

Me too, on both sides, including a couple of pastors. but I've never heard of this! What state?

[Anonymous]

Roman Catholic, German
North western Ohio in case that matters. I think our family started making the lamb cake in the 1950s

[Anonymous]

Polish Roman Catholic here.

[Anonymous]

Not me, but my hair a and. Polish roman catholic

[Anonymous]

http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/crossculturaldesserts/r/lambcake.htm

Easter lamb cake (known as agnuszek or baranek wielkanocny in Polish) is a traditional Eastern European dessert


baranek wielkanocny can also be made out of plain butter.

It is also popular in Germany.

[Anonymous]

Southern wasp. I've never even heard of this tradition.