Edinburgh can’t offer an Easter lamb cake like Roncesvalles

During Holy Week I went on a quest for a lamb cake mould. We had Polish guests for Easter, and I was determined to produce Polish Easter dishes and cakes, including the traditional three-dimensional lamb cake. This proved more challenging in Edinburgh than it would be in multicultural Toronto, and as I scurried from shop to shop in the unseasonably frigid air, I could be heard muttering, “I know exactly where I could find one on Roncesvalles.”

If you are what you eat, it would seem that the three dimensional cake-bakers of Edinburgh are high-heeled shoes, garden bugs and the Easter Bunny. I began to loathe the Easter Bunny, so prominent was he in the cooking departments and shops of Edinburgh. In Britain lambs are considered a harbinger of spring, so I was surprised not to find even chocolate ones among the regiments of rabbits and eggs...