ViLco wrote:
> Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have a tried and true recipe for the bread that is made at
>> Easter.....it is braided into a cross and has eggs inserted in the
>> dough before baking. I want to attempt one of these this year and I
>> want input before I just randomly pick a recipe....also, the
>> eggs...boiled before putting them in the dough or do they go in raw
>> and 'bake' with the bread?
>> Inquiring minds.
>


I have made all of these and find the results quite similar.
You will find a long list of recipes for each on Google.
(One of my Sweet Bread recipes begins: "Melt 1 lb. butter and
break a dozen eggs into a bowl..." It makes a dozen or so small loaves.)

Portuguese (or Hawaiian) sweet bread
Greek Easter bread
Challah

One of my aunts boiled the eggs before baking the bread, the other
didn't. IIRC the pre-boiled eggs were safer to use (no accidents
involving raw egg) but they did have that green ring around the yolk.

gloria p