Every week during Lent my Mother would make dozens of Fastnachts (German Doughnuts) shaken in powered sugar. The best way to eat them was HOT when the sugar was melting! Always, fried in Crisco and never made with granulated sugar!!! On Easter we would have 'Eggs with Mustard Sauce,' made with cream and then it was poured over quartered eggs. We would receive a pure 'Sugar Rabbit' about 2" in height made by my Maternal Grandfather with a wooden candy mold that was passed down thru the family. And always, a Panasonic Egg, again made by my Grandfather and decorated by my Grandmother. One for all 12 children, spouses and 36 Grandchildren. For our Easter Egg Hunt at my Fraternal Grandparents, they would take a silver dollar (I wish I had all the Morgan Silver Dollars I received as a child) tie the money in a piece of cloth and hang one for each child on the Lilac Bush in the back yard, just above our reach so that you had to work to retrieve it. My husband is French and his family would "pluck eggs," you would hit the end of another persons egg and you won if your egg didn't crack. It was a happy time with a large family, and all living within walking distance when I was a child. My husband and I have tried to keep the Easter Traditions, but it's hard with four of our five children living out of state. I was a little surprised when I started to think of the different German traditions that my family still observes........I'm the sixth generation in the United States. Maybe we still carry on the traditions because we were a large family that keep in close contact (I was the first to move out of state and then returned), and most of us are 100% German. Enjoy your Easter.