The severe and rigorous abstinence that formerly characterized the period of Lent among Christians introduced the custom of blessing on Holy Saturday all eggs collected from Ash Wednesday to distribute among friends on Easter Day. In some places, they ware painted in red (in memory of the blood shed by Jesus), yellow and other colors. As for the etymology of the name some defend that it comes from the word munus, which means "gift" in Greek.
For several centuries, in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands, when Lent started, the bakeries would cook pastry flour buns, made with baked egg and sugar, with one or more boiled eggs embedded in the surface, which godparents gave as a present to their godchildren. Today this buns and the eggs have been replaced by chocolate figures ranging from traditional to more imaginative egg: any kind of animals, cartoon characters, soccer players ...And few can measure up to two meters high! They are aithentic chocolate figures!
Check some of this year's mones by our friends at Pastisseria Ferrer in Barcelona!
Very original mones > http://www.pastisseriaferrer.
Shop windows > http://www.pastisseriaferrer.
Hens and eggs > http://www.pastisseriaferrer.
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