It’s Easter: let’s decorate Easter eggs.
The swallow has been drawn above it perhaps does not make a summer, whereas it immediately makes Easter.
We speak about the decorated egg, female task, still felt and widespread especially in small towns.
Coloured on Saturday and placed in a basket to dry, the Sunday of the Resurrection it is brought to the church to be blessed and then consumed during the festive lunch.
Ancient custom, eggs were already coloured by Egyptians to make a present for the return of spring.
With the spread of Christianity, a legend wants some eggs suddenly painted with red in front of Peter’s incredulity to the news of the Resurrection of Jesus given by Mary Magdalene.
It is in the Renaissance courts that among nobles spreads the use of presenting gems and pearls-studded eggs, but the climax of preciosity has been reached at the end of the nineteenth century by the famous eggs of the goldsmith Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian imperial court.
Preciosity and refinements aside, to decorate eggs is simple and fun, and gives way to have your own way and to express your creativity.
According to its use, it is necessary to empty it of its contents (with a big needle that perforate it at both extremities) if you want to use it as a decoration, whereas you must make it hard-boiled and paint it just with vegetable and for food colours if you want to eat it.
It may be useful to know that by putting in a pot peels of blonde onions you can get the orange, yellow with orange peels or carrots, green with spinach leaves, blue with red cabbage leaves, brown with coffee, red with blueberries or fresh red beet.
Important devices are: adding a teaspoon of vinegar to water, boiling for 15 minutes on a slow fire, putting the pot with colours and eggs in the fridge all night, and polishing eggs with olive oil.
With for food colours (at grocer’s), we suggest instead to bathe already hard-boiled eggs in cold water.
For a colourful and joyous Easter, there is an egg to be coloured or decorated. And who has more ideas, the more they make.
Visit the hotels of Riccione open at Easter, provided with heating, air conditioning, satellite colour TV, rooms with shower box and special offers for families with children!