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Easter Egg Holders If your kids love to dye eggs, but you don't need 2 dozen colored eggs, channel some of that creativity toward making egg holders. To make them, cut a cardboard paper towel tube into one-inch sections. Color with markers or cover with construction paper and decorate. Using these tubes, you can also create "egg people." Draw faces on the eggs, and decorate the holders to look like clothing. You can even add yarn "hair."

Marbleized Eggs

Here's an interesting egg-dyeing technique. Stir a tablespoon of vegetable oil in a cup of traditional egg dye. Because the oil and water don't mix, the dye makes swirly patterns on the egg. Let the egg dry, and then dip it in another color for a different effect.

- Peggy Clements

Cross post for health awareness

Lots Of Extra Eggs?

How long will those Easter eggs keep? According to the American Egg Board hard-boiled eggs will keep for up to a week in the refrigerator. If you display decorated eggs at Easter, you should discard eggs that have been un refrigerated for more than two hours.

- Peggy Clements

Form Kona Thanks for the tips Sue and the link tonsie! There is a lot of good info there. I found this and thought it would fit in well with this topic. I know around here, many Portuguese bakeries bake sweet bread with an egg or eggs in them. I would never eat the eggs even though the old timers say it’s fine.

Guess I was right not to eat them!

Educational Use

Are Easter Eggs Safe?

Sometimes eggs are decorated, used as decorations, and hunted at Easter. Here are some safety tips for Easter eggs.

Dyeing eggs: After hard cooking eggs, dye them and return them to the refrigerator within 2 hours. If eggs are to be eaten, use a food-safe coloring. As with all foods, persons dyeing the eggs should wash their hands before handling the eggs.

Decorations: One Easter bread recipe is decorated with dyed, cooked eggs in the braided bread. Because the bread is kept at room temperature, these eggs should be considered a decoration only and not eaten.

Blowing out eggshells: Because some raw eggs may contain Salmonella, you must use caution when blowing out the contents to hollow out the shell for decorating, such as for Ukranian Easter eggs. Use only eggs that have been kept refrigerated and are uncracked. To destroy bacteria that may be present on the surface of the egg, wash the egg in hot water and then rinse in a solution of 1 teaspoon chlorine bleach per half cup of water. After blowing out the egg, refrigerate the contents and use within 2 to 4 days; cook thoroughly before eating.

Hunting Eggs: Hard-cooked eggs for an egg hunt must be prepared with care to prevent cracking the shells. If the shells crack, bacteria could contaminate the inside. Eggs should be hidden in places that are protected from dirt, pets, and other sources of bacteria. The total time for hiding and hunting eggs should not exceed 2 hours. The "found" eggs must be re-refrigerated until eaten.

www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/pubs/shelleggs.htm

From Tonsie: There was some good information on the CDC site about eggs:

www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/eggsafety.htm

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2002


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