Sweet, sweet, unique and ours. Mother's Day is the right day to celebrate a unique and special woman who knows how to make us feel at home every time we see her. And what better way than a dessert to do it? This time we will prepare it for her and we will be able to choose from 20 recipes that will make her happy. But before we see them all and think about what we want to prepare, let's remember why we are doing it. That is, what is Mother's Day? How was it born?
When it's Mother's Day
Mother's Day does not have a specific date, but is celebrated by custom on the second Sunday of May. This year will therefore fall on 12 May.
History
The first traces of this celebration are found in 17th century England. However, the "Mothering Day" party was not dedicated to mothers, but above all to the children who worked. On this day, which coincided with the fourth Sunday of Lent, they could reach families and stay at home. This festival also did not spread to America where we have to wait until 1870 to have a trace. In May of that year, activist and pacifist Julia Ward Howe proposed the establishment of a day dedicated to mothers to foster peace at the time of the American Civil War.
This proposal was perpetrated by Anna Jervis, daughter of her friend Ann. The woman saw her dream come true in 1908 when Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time in Grafton, Massachusetts. The carnation, his mother's favorite flower, was elected as a symbol of the celebration. However, the celebration dates back to 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson, with a Congress resolution, established the "Mother's Day".
In Italy
As we mentioned above, in Italy the custom of celebrating this festival is more recent. We are in 1957 when Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time by don Otello Migliosi, a priest from the village of Tordibetto in Assisi. From that moment it became part of the holiday calendar and follows the American custom of being celebrated on the second Sunday of May.
In the gallery above, 20 desserts to celebrate!
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