Happy Easter!

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Braided Bread

May I wish all my dear readers the same wonderful Easter celebration that my family had today! My younger brother and sister made this beautiful bread for our dinner. It used a special blend of gluten-free flour (rice flour, tapioca, xanthum gum, yes, even chickpea and buckwheat flour) and came out just like regular wheat bread! And just look at the eggs . . .  we dyed our own duck eggs since they were the only white ones we had--all our chicken eggs were brown.

The dying process was so simple: we mixed 2 t. white vinegar in 2 cups of water, which was enough to cover one or two eggs in a small container. We mixed food coloring in til quite dark, doing each color in a separate bowl. The eggs only needed to soak about 45 minutes, depending on how dark we wanted them. It was amazing--it really worked! The only catch was, if we hard boiled them, the color came off immediately. So hard boil first if you use this method. However, interestingly enough, the bread recipe used uncooked eggs, and once baked in the oven, they were just as if hard boiled!

 I just had the idea of making a little nest in the middle with another colored egg . . .

Happy Easter!