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Default Easter or Pascal Bread question



Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
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> "Ranée at Arabian Knits" > wrote in message
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> > In article >,
> > "Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote:
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> >> 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.


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> can I ask the importance of three red eggs? I have never seen that before.
> -ginny


Other versions just have eggs of any colour in them. Remnant of earlier
fertility rites or else the roasted egg of Passover.