Recipes for you - Part 2

Chocolate Truffles
From:http://www.hersheys.com/recipes.aspx
Ingredients
3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter
3/4 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Cocoa or powdered sugar

Directions

1 Melt butter in heavy saucepan over low heat. Add cocoa; stir until smooth. Add sweetened condensed milk; increase heat to medium. Cook, stirring constantly, about 4 minutes or until mixture has pudding-like consistency and is smooth and glossy.
2 Remove from heat; stir in vanilla. Cover; refrigerate 3 to 4 hours or until firm. Shape into 1-1/4-inch balls; roll in cocoa or powdered sugar. Refrigerate until firm, 1 to 2 hours. Store, covered, in refrigerator. About 2-1/2 dozen candies.

Easter Recipes for you - part 1

Easy Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
By: DARRYN_BRIGGS
From: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Easy-Mint-Chocolate-Chip-Ice-Cream/Detail.aspx

Ingredients

475 ml 2% milk

475 ml heavy cream

200 g sugar

3 g salt

5 ml vanilla extract

5 ml peppermint extract

3 drops green food coloring (optional)

175 g miniature semisweet chocolate chips
 
Directions


1.In a large bowl, stir together the milk, cream, sugar, salt, vanilla extract and peppermint extract until the sugar has dissolved. Color to your liking with the green food coloring.

2.Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker, and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions. After about 10 minutes into the freezing, add the chocolate chips. After the ice cream has thickened, about 30 minutes later, spoon into a container, and freeze for 2 hours.



Easter Poems

Facts About Easter

In medieval times a festival of egg throwing was held in church, during which the priest would throw a hard-boiled egg to one of the choirboys. It was then tossed from one choirboy to the next and whoever held the egg when the clock struck 12 was the winner and retained the egg.




The first Easter baskets were made to look like bird's nests.



Easter Bonnets are a throw back to the days when the people denied themselves the pleasure of wearing finery for the duration of Lent.



The traditional act of painting eggs is called Pysanka.



To Egyptians, the egg was a sacred token of the renovation of mankind after the Flood.



The egg has always been a symbol of the Resurrection to Christians.



The date of Passover is variable as it is dependent on the phases of the moon, and thus Easter is also a movable feast.



The custom of giving eggs at Easter time has been traced back to Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and Romans, to whom the egg was a symbol of life.





Easter is now celebrated (in the words of the Book of Common Prayer) on the first Sunday after the full moon which happens on or after March 21, the Spring Equinox.



Some Churches still keep up the old tradition of using evergreens - symbolic of eternal life - embroidered in red on white, or woven in straw, but most now prefer displays of flowers in the spring colours of green, yellow and white.



In the United States Easter is celebrated with a large Easter Egg Hunt by children on the White House Lawn.



To the Jews, the egg marked the time of their departure from the land of Egypt.



By tradition, it was obligatory (or at least lucky) for churchgoers to wear some bright new piece of clothing - at least an Easter bonnet, if not a complete new outfit.