Good Friday

Holy Week is always a busy week for us at Linderhof

For I'm in the kitchen

Making dough for hundred and hundreds of cookies

for a P.E.O. Fundraiser

Three Hundred Bunnies

And Three Hundred Chicks

Where's Waldo Wabbit?

(he's the brown one!)

An early order . . . one Bunny got forgot and I had tinted the icing yellow to do the chicks

What to do?     Frost him brown, of course!

(He's for Grand Girl Lucy . . . )

And a Good Friday tradition

Hot Cross Buns

Alas, not made by me but made by the wonderful ladies

(Janet and Leslie)

of All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Scott.

I'm all about supporting fundraisers

(And I didn't have to bake! --

And they are good -- really good!)

The buns for our traditional Good Friday breakfast

Of sausage links and scrambled eggs

Growing up they were our Easter morning fare

but church's have taken over Easter breakfasts and so we enjoy them Good Friday morning

P.E.O. Sisters came to help

BAG

All 600 cookies

Bagged and tied with a ribbon all ready to pick up!

A separate container for the rabbits and the chicks

(Alas, they couldn't share the same container!)

And after . . . 

Hot Cross Buns and coffee

(You have to reward you workers)

And chat . . . catching up mostly on grandchildren!

And while I waited for the cookies to be picked up,

another Good Friday tradition

The dying of the eggs

In coffee cups

(because Mother always did)

with vinegar and food coloring

(because Mother always did)

Good Friday the house should smell of hot vinegar!

(although in my other life when I worked, the egg dying was usually after church on Good Friday --

not in the afternoon!)

The dyed eggs in the old egg holder

(an early purchase from Martha by Mail)

Alas, this brand of food color produced more "orange" red eggs than red red ones!

(The green, yellow and blue produced a prettier egg I think)

Me -- I'm a primary color kind of gal although I do like purple ones

(which this year turned out rather brown -- I could have gotten an egg that color from the Farmer's Market -- LOL!)

And this afternoon . . 

Another Hot Cross Bun for tea while we admire our colored eggs

and a card from the Grands . . . 

(the bunnies are wee fingerprints!)

A bought long ago ceramic rabbit that looks like chocolate

brings that "candy" touch to the breakfast room.

Because Easter, after all is a lot about chocolate!

This evening, we shall go to church . . . 

For

And tomorrow we wait . . .