Lect
“I’ll eat cookies and I’ll drink wine, I’ll love Micka, as long as I live”
Such and similar verses are still stuck on brightly colored lect hearts, which are decorated with sugar different colors.
The red color of lect’s hearts symbolizes passion and love, the yellow bow is a sign of infinity, and the green flowers illustrate growth and development. Some lect hearts are decorated with a colored drawing or a writing, most often it is a love message.
Often, instead of a verse, there is a mirror in the middle of the heart so that the girls could admire themselves in it – as the folk tradition says.
Making lect’s hearts is one of the oldest crafts in our country. The baking of honey cakes in Slovenia dates back to the 19th century. Once upon a time, these beautifully decorated gingerbreads were baked exclusively on the biggest church and family holidays as a dessert and as a wedding gift.
A bird and a horse were also popular motifs.
The red color of lect’s hearts symbolizes passion and love, the yellow bow is a sign of infinity, and the green flowers illustrate growth and development. Some lect hearts are decorated with a colored drawing or a writing, most often it is a love message.
Often, instead of a verse, there is a mirror in the middle of the heart so that the girls could admire themselves in it – as the folk tradition says.
Making lect’s hearts is one of the oldest crafts in our country. The baking of honey cakes in Slovenia dates back to the 19th century. Once upon a time, these beautifully decorated gingerbreads were baked exclusively on the biggest church and family holidays as a dessert and as a wedding gift.
A bird and a horse were also popular motifs.