What's Cooking: Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace's Easter Bread

Ingredients needed

· 8 oz Sugar

· 4 oz Butter

· 16 oz full eggs (7-8 XL eggs)

· 36 oz Flour

· 2 oz Fresh Yeast

· Teaspoon of each: citrus extract, orangish extract, almond extract

· 1-2 teaspoons of nonpareils for garnish

Directions

· Mix each ingredients successful mixing bowl, operation and shape mixed into a ample ball

· Cover vessel pinch towel and remainder mixed for 1 hour

· Cut nan mixed into 8 oz pieces and agelong to 18-inch pieces

· To make a 1 ovum size: twist each 18” portion into knot rolls and remainder for 1 hour

· To make a 3-egg twist bread: braid 3 18” pieces and make a ringing and remainder for 1 hour

· After nan breadstuff has rested, ovum lavation nan apical of nan breadstuff and spot boiled and colored eggs successful bread

· Then sprinkle connected nonpareils arsenic garnish.

· Bake astatine 330* for 15 to 18 minutes.

What You’ll Need:

· White eggs (hard-boiled)

· Food coloring

· Cups aliases bowls for dye

· Water

· Vinegar

· Spoons aliases tongs (to grip nan eggs)

· Old newspaper aliases insubstantial towels (for drying)

· Rubber gloves (optional, to debar staining hands)

Steps to Color Eggs:

1. Boil nan Eggs:

o Place your eggs successful a cookware and screen them pinch water. Bring to a boil, past trim nan power and fto them simmer for astir 9-12 minutes. Once done, fto them cool completely. You tin besides spot nan eggs successful crystal h2o to velocity up nan cooling.

2. Prepare nan Dye:

o In abstracted cups aliases bowls, move astir 1 cup of h2o into each.

o Add 1 tablespoonful of vinegar to each cup (this helps nan dye adhere better).

o Stir successful nan nutrient coloring (usually astir 10-20 drops, depending connected nan strength of colour you want). You tin operation different colors to create civilization shades.

3. Dye nan Eggs:

o Use a spoon aliases tongs to mildly little nan hard-boiled eggs into nan dye. Let them beryllium successful nan dye for 5-10 minutes aliases longer, depending connected really heavy you want nan colour to be.

o For multi-colored aliases layered effects, dip nan ovum into 1 color, fto it dry, and past dip it successful different color.

o If you want to create patterns aliases designs, you tin usage rubber bands, stickers, aliases a crayon to tie connected nan eggs earlier dyeing them (the dye won't instrumentality to nan crayon, creating nosy patterns).

4. Dry nan Eggs:

o Carefully region nan eggs from nan dye utilizing tongs aliases a spoon, and spot them connected a insubstantial towel aliases newspaper to dry.

o Allow nan eggs to barren wholly earlier handling them.