Easter Bread (recipe)

Every year on Easter Sunday after the Liturgie Swami Vishwananda gives to everybody a peace from the blessed Easterbread.

Bhagyshri baked it yesterday. Here is the recipe:

Of course here we use instead of the eggs some egg replacement from the organic shop or cornstarch.

We have a wonderful pastry kneading machine but Bhagyshri says that her hands are better ;-)

During baking time (30-45 minutes) inside the oven she wrapped some Aluminium foil arrond so that the bread doesn't get too crusty. (If you are making very big breads, then bake 60- 90 minutes.)

Finished; some glace icing on top and ready for to be blessed in the church.

All Easterbreads are waiting - - -

 and we too ;-)   The liturgy was long---

Finally - after hours -  everybody got a piece of the bread !

Morning kitchen prayer

Every morning the kitchen team starts together with Bhagyshri the work with some prayers.

First they do the Swami Vishwananda Gayatri:

Om Premavatara Vidmahi

Sat Gurudevaya Dimahi

Tanno Vishwananda Prachodayat

Then they pray to the Goddess Gayatri for purification:

OM bhur bhuva swaha 

tat savitur varenyam   

bhargo devasya dhimahi 

dhiyo yona pratshodajat 

(May we meditate on the effulgent light of the worshipful one who has given birth to all worlds. May this One direct our Mind-rays towards the path of Good.)

GODDESS ANNAPURNA

And after that they pray to Annapurna, the goddess of cooking with a special prayer to her: 

Om Annapurne Sadapurne

Shankara Prana Vallabhe

Gyan Vairaghya Sidhyartham 

Bhiksham Dehi Cha Parvati

On the altar in the kitchen there is also a picture of a very powerful Saint, "Jalaram Baba" from India, Swami Vishwananda visited his place in Jhunjunuhu last November:

JALARAM BABA

He always fed the poor people and in this village they still feed everyone who comes. There are big copper pots with clear clean water which get never empty - which is a special miracle there.
So we pray that if one day our pots are empty, He will help to fill them!