Christus ist geboren! Zu Weihnachten in der Vojvodina (wir feiern den 7. Juli) backen wir einen Kuchen (Česnica) und legen irgendwo eine Münze hinein. Wer in der Familie sie findet, soll Glück für den Rest des Jahres haben.
https://i.redd.it/qkkg5333z6cg1.jpeg
Von Hot_Nebula_4565
22 Kommentare
No one ever breaks his or her teeth on the coin?
Do people find if their slice has a coin before they start eating?
We have the same thing here in finland, but we put an almond into christms riceporrige. So basically not the same thing at all, but kinda?
Galette des rois
EDIT: Different looking cake – Brioche usually in France – but same sort of idea of burying „feve“ which could be a figurine and whoever has the feve inside their portion gets to wear a paper crown to be king/queen
Christmas in July? That’s odd!
Mother always knows where the coin is?
wondering who was that balkan dentist who came up with this idea
This is disgusting
Did you get the coin?
We do the same in Greece but on 1st January
correction june not july. little oopsie. i was tired
I’m terrified of (me or a loved one) choking and this sounds like a nightmare lol
We do something similar in the U.K. We hide a silver sixpence in the Christmas pudding (eaten on 25th December) and whoever gets it in their slice is said to have good luck in the new year. You douse the pudding in brandy or whisky and set it alight, but it’s such a heavy dessert, especially after a Christmas feast.
My mum uses the same old Victorian sixpence that her mum and nan used, but most people will use a modern £1 coin or silvery 50p coin.
Can you send some my way
Ok that is a cool Tradition, but I have to ask.
How many Clubs were eaten.
In The Netherlands, we just put a pickle in whatever and whoever finds it, has to do the dishes.
I imagine the dude who knows nothing of the custom gets the coin and is too timid or polite to say someone put a coin in my dessert.
looks tasty!
what if no one found it…
Mexico does something similar called La Rosca
https://lolomercadito.com/blogs/news/origin-and-meaning-of-la-rosca-de-reyes-three-kings-bread?srsltid=AfmBOoqSW4vepXP0yaRqq-ZRn9_H6QvJgC3J6cDy4eI5shM0vqTf0YBR
This looks more like baklava than cake
Fun fact: it’s cake because of taxes.
Orthodox Christian tradition is to bake a special bread (called česnica) that is sanctified by the priest.
Austro Hungarian empire ruled the Vojvodina region, and they imposed a tax on the sanctified bread, so the local population switched to a sweet cake that something between a pie and baklava.
yeah, cool, but is anyone else besides me looking forward to the day when such superstitions die out? this one is admittedly rather harmless by comparison to many others, but irrationality is irrationality at the end of the day, and we should aspire to more, as a species.