Paskha Wooden Cheese Mold "Pasochnitsa"

DIMENTIONS : Medium: 4 1/2" x 6"

For Eastern Christians, Pascha (Easter) is the Feast of Feasts and the most celebrated Christian holiday. Traditionally, for this day, Russian Christians prepare a wonderful classic dish called "Sirnaja Pashka" - made with eggs and dairy products.
These ingredients are the foods the faithful abstained from during the Great Fast before Pascha. The ingredients are placed into a specially made "pasochnitsa", a mold consisting of four planks joined into a trapezoidal shape and dressed with a Cross and carved patterns.

This contemporay wooden mold is from Russia.