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OUR FAMILY EASTER TRADITIONS:

Saturday night we boiled eggs, lots of eggs.
Taking the dye "pills" and putting them in
cups of hot water. Try as you may there
was always more dye on the children
and the kitchen than the eggs. Now
there are better technics for dying eggs
that produce beautiful eggs that look
like porcelain.

The eggs were left in a basket and
set out so the Easter Bunny could
hide them. In the morning the hunt
begins for the eggs and a beautiful
Easter basket.

Our egg hunt took place in doors due
to the fact you can't count on the
spring weather in Utah. It was
usually raining or snowing on
Easter Sunday. Easter eggs were
hidden in certain rooms of the
house. We kept track of where they
were and how many were hidden.
Even then we always found at
least one or two a few weeks
down the road.

Our Easter baskets were filled with
colored grass the kind that you
picked up forever. Brightly colored
candy eggs (mostly the big kind that
only "Dad" would eat) chocolate eggs
and bunnies. Mom's favorite
marshmallow peeps (best when hard).

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EASTER EGG COOKIES
Ingredients

• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup shortening
• 1 cup powder sugar
• 2 cups sifted flour
• 1 tbs vanilla
• 1 or 1/2 cups nuts

Directions
Roll into balls, bake at 350 degrees about 20 min. When cookies have cooled roll in powder sugar. Watch closely they BURN EASY

For Easter Egg Cookies:
Mix the dough, divide for adding pastel food coloring. Shape into eggs.

One exceptionally busy Easter we left buying the candy to fill the baskets until the very last minute on Saturday evening. When we went to the store we found there was no Easter candy. I had to use my imagination, we bought candy bars and I put their names on them. And then we went home and made cookies colored and shaped like eggs. Big ones and small ones. Little did I know that this would be come a family Tradition. It made so much more sence to have the cookies and cut down on the candy.

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MARSHMALLOW EASTER EGGS

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons cold water
• 2 packages unflavored gelatin (2  tablespoons)
• ½ cup water
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla or other flavoring
• pinch of salt
• Food Coloring
• Flour to fill three (9 x 13") baking pans with about 2 inches of flour

Directions
Soften gelatin in the 6 tablespoons water. Add sugar to the ½ cup water in a saucepan and bring to boil. Remove from heat and add gelatin mixture. Stir until dissolved. Allow to cool in refrigerator until barely warm. Beat with electric beater about 15 minutes or until mixture resembles whipped cream. Add a pinch of salt, flavoring and coloring as desired.

Fill baking pans with 2 inches of flour. Smooth. Make indentations with an egg. Fill indentations with prepared marshmallow. Place in refrigerator for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from refrigerator, flip marshmallow eggs over to cover with flour. Shake off excess. Dip into melted dipping chocolate. Allow to cool completely.

Decorate with colored icing if desired and store in cool place. To make cookie cutter marshmallows: Line a 15x10x1" pan with brown paper dust with flour or powder sugar. Pour candy onto flour/sugar. Dip a bunny or chick cookie cuter in cold water, cut out figures. Gently push figures from cutter. Dip in chocolate

This is a really good marshmallow egg recipe. After making these you will never buy marshmallow eggs in the store again.

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