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P\u00e5ske<\/b><\/a> [pawskeh] (Easter) in Denmark is usually a lot more laid-back than jul<\/b> (Xmas). For many Danes, this welcome break from work is associated with nice little things like the coming of for\u00e5r<\/b> (Spring), p\u00e5skeliljer<\/b> (\u201dEaster\u201d daffodils), p\u00e5skebryg<\/b> (Easter beer) and the uniquely Danish tradition of scissor-cut g\u00e6kkebrev<\/b> letters (which I already wrote about<\/a>). Still, nothing beats p\u00e5ske\u00e6g<\/b> (Easter eggs) and all the fun you can have with them.<\/p>\n Skal vi puste p\u00e5ske\u00e6g?<\/b> (Wanna blow Easter eggs?) Many Danes have burst out laughing while trying at puste p\u00e5ske\u00e6g<\/b> (or they have become really frustrated, as in a classical scene of the Danish action comedy\u00a0Blinkende Lygter<\/strong><\/a>). The goal is to rid an unboiled \u00e6g<\/b> of its blomme og hvide <\/b>(yolk and white) so you can paint the \u00e6ggeskal<\/b> (egg shell) and use it as a decoration. To do that, you take a normal egg \u2013 usually a h\u00f8nse\u00e6g<\/b>, hen\u2019s egg \u2013 and use a n\u00e5l <\/b>(needle) to make a whole in each end. Then you just start blowing into one of the wholes, until you look like a chipmunk about to explode, and voila! the contents of the egg should start pouring out of the other whole. It\u2019s time to catch your breath, and a pensel<\/b> (paint brush) to add your signature m\u00f8nster<\/b> (pattern) to the empty shell. Attach the painted egg to a tr\u00e5d<\/b> (string) and use it to adorn lamper<\/b>, planter<\/b> etc.<\/p>\n At trille p\u00e5ske\u00e6g<\/b> (rolling Easter eggs) is basically bocce\/bowling with eggs. There are lots of different ways to do it. In parts of my own family, using real hen\u2019s eggs was the thing (boiled together with onion to make the shells yellow). In this variety of the game, everybody takes turns at rolling \u2013 or even throwing! \u2013 their special egg on a floor. If they hit an opponent\u2019s egg, they gets a point (and this goes on until all the eggs are smashed!) I\u2019ve also played this game with chocolate eggs, where you got a number of eggs to roll \u2013 and could eat the ones you hit\u2026 On the island of Sams\u00f8<\/b> the children<\/a> use boiled, decorated eggs which they roll down a bakke<\/b> (hill) \u2013 to see whose egg rolls the longest distance\u2026<\/p>\n Of course, another fun activity to have with boiled or chocolate p\u00e5ske\u00e6g<\/b> is simply \u2026 eating them! God p\u00e5ske! \ud83d\ude42<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" P\u00e5ske [pawskeh] (Easter) in Denmark is usually a lot more laid-back than jul (Xmas). For many Danes, this welcome break from work is associated with nice little things like the coming of for\u00e5r (Spring), p\u00e5skeliljer (\u201dEaster\u201d daffodils), p\u00e5skebryg (Easter beer) and the uniquely Danish tradition of scissor-cut g\u00e6kkebrev letters (which I already wrote about). Still…<\/p>\n