Carlin Sunday: second Sunday before Easter. As my mother and grandmother used to say of the Sunday’s up to Easter: ‘Carlin, Palm and Pasche Egg Day’. Always had them then as a child, and loads of Cumbrian pubs served bowls of them on Carlin Sunday - for free: always cooked in stock from a ham shank, and served with plenty butter and pepper - delicious! Around that time all the school kids would be buying them too, for use in pea shooters :-)
On Easter Sunday there’d always be Pasche eggs too - eggs hard boiled wrapped in onion skins or similar or dye the. Pubs sold them for Pasche egg dumping competitions: each egg was numbered and then the numbers called out and each heat involved two people hitting their eggs against each other in turn. Winner was the unbroken one at then end of all the rounds. But even if you didn’t win you got to eat your egg!
PM me next time you’re in the area if you like, and we could meet up: I live very near Carlisle.