You may already know that the egg as an Easter symbol, represents new life and the resurrection of Christ. But you may be wondering how we ended up giving each other chocolate after centuries of hard-boiling and decorating eggs, which were then eaten to break the Lent fast?
We still decorate hen and duck eggs at Easter, using paints, dyes and whatever crafts we can get our hands on, creating patterns or characters on the shell. The earliest eggs would have been decorated with vegetable colouring and charcoal, or by wrapping the eggs in onion skins and boiling them. This gave the eggs a shiny, mottled gold finish and clever re-dipping produced intricate patterns.
The Victorians started a tradition which would evolve into the modern chocolate egg when Easter gifts were given inside gift boxes shaped like eggs. It would hold sweets and chocolates and would become the origins of the candy filled eggs you can buy at any supermarket today. The UK started seeing chocolate eggs at the end of the 19th century with J. S. Fry taking inspiration from chocolatiers in France and Germany and their techniques. With Cadbury perfecting the mass production of moulded eggs and the popularity of his new invention of milk chocolate, chocolate eggs have become a ubiquitous part of Easter celebrations for the last 150 years.
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