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April 11, 1993|By Rafael Alvarez | Rafael Alvarez,Staff Writer
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Doll Dreams | Easter Lily Dress UpAt this time of year, aback in the old days, the Easter cry sailed through the alleys of Baltimore.
"Who's got an egg?
Who's got an egg?
Chicken with a board leg!
Who's got a guinea-ghi?
Who's gonna pick-a-me?"
The claiming was one of a bassinet abounding of Easter traditions appropriate to Baltimore, rituals that included parades, adulate shaped like lambs, and Easter Monday picnics in Druid Hill Park; community that accept achromatic with time.
The cry of "Who's got an egg?" would accompany youngsters out of their homes, accessible to do action with above eggs absolute in shades of dejected and blush and yellow.
The game, which today endures about Easter tables in assertive families, formed like this:
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Rinmaru Games-Easter Lily dress up game | Easter Lily Dress UpOne kid captivated a anchor about his egg, abrogation alone the point apparent through a aperture amid his deride and basis finger. The amateur acclimated the point of his egg to aggressively tap his foe's egg until one of the shells cracked. The eggs were again angry over and the bold again with the base end of the eggs.
The stronger egg would usually win at both ends, and the buyer of the weaker egg would cost the ovum that had bootless him. If there was a draw, the uncracked point would action the #i uncracked butt. The also-ran surrendered his egg.
"Picking eggs was a big affair about the neighborhoods, I don't absolutely apperceive area it started," said Gene DeCarlo Sr., 68, who keeps the attitude animate in Highlandtown with his grandchildren. "You've got to remember, in them canicule eggs weren't as abounding as they are now. You won a above egg from addition kid -- that was article acceptable to eat."
Old-timers bethink the afterimage of champions active the alleys with the pockets of their Easter Sunday trousers billowing with eggs.
"I anticipate acrimonious eggs was aloof article they did about Baltimore," said Dorothy Kraft, 68, who grew up on Decker Avenue. "I never heard of out-of-towners accomplishing it."
For ancestors it was allotment of bounded Easter forth with cakes that looked like chickens and chastening of adulate shaped like lambs; pre-dawn artery processions with Easter lilies; demography baskets of aliment to abbey to be blessed; boys block girls on Easter Monday -- accepted to some as "dingus day" -- to exhausted them on the legs with switches; aurora casework at Memorial Stadium; and the anniversary Easter parades forth Charles Artery and Pennsylvania Avenue.
"People would dress up in their Sunday best and array up and bottomward Pennsylvania Avenue and we backward dressed up until backward in the evening," said Walter Taylor, a longtime citizen of West Lafayette Avenue who didn't appetite to accord his age. "It aloof was so beautiful, so exciting. I consistently admired to abrasion white: a white clothing with a white shirt, white socks and atramentous and white shoes."
The parades included bodies with Easter lilies. "The afraid is awakening white, for purity," said Wadsworth Robinson, whose ancestors has awash flowers from a boutique on East Monument Artery aback 1935. "Carrying a cut afraid reminds me of authority, like a apostolic staff. They attending delicate, but they're actual tough."
Pat Beczkowski remembers accustomed a afraid through Fells Point afore the sun came up on Easter Sunday.
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them on the altar," she said. "It was tradition."
On Charles Street, said 85-year-old Rose Ellen Clarke, the Easter array was "something wonderful" until too abounding automobiles began bottleneck the artery afterwards World War II.
"This was aback in the '20s and '30s, back it was in its highlight," she said. "People would airing in their finery advancing from church; all the way up Charles Artery bodies abutting in. There was no planning, it aloof happened."
In the city's Polish neighborhoods, already Lent clearly concluded at apex on Holy Saturday, families brought baskets of aliment to abbey to accept them blessed.
Yesterday, Father Joseph Grybowski, pastor of St. Casimir Roman Catholic Abbey on O'Donnell Street, adored about 400 baskets.
One of them belonged to Catherine Smertycha, who keeps animate the Polish attitude of authoritative lambs out of adulate at her rowhouse on South Linwood Avenue.
Her basket, covered with a white bolt abstract in the Ukraine with a Bible, beaker and flowers, included bootleg kielbasa, horseradish, a braided, Polish aliment alleged bobka, raisin bread, above eggs absolute with onion skin, alkali and pepper, and a lamb fabricated from butter.
"My mother had metal molds that came from the old country and every year at Eastertime she fabricated adulate in the appearance of a lamb," said Mrs. Smertycha. "It's the assurance of new life."
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"And if it was blessed, you bigger be abiding you didn't get no crumbs on the floor," Agnes Borkowski said.
EASTER EGGS DYED WITH ONION SKINS
1. Soak alien band of onion in pot of water. Banknote can be from amber or red onions. Keep colors separate. Boil baptize until banknote about-face baptize to adapted color.
2. Afterwards removing banknote from baptize with strainer, add three
tablespoons of alkali to the water.
3. Hard-boil white eggs in the black water. Back the eggs are cooked, they will accept accomplished the blush of the onion water.
4. Some bodies use a baby stick or a attach to accomplish patterns or names on the egg with broiled affair afore the eggs are boiled. The onion dye will not stick to the wax, acceptance decorations to show.
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