The Secret Behind a Cadbury Egg

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I don’t know about you but everything changed the first time I bit into a Cadbury Crème Egg one Easter. I mean, I had gnawed on chocolate rabbits, jellybeans and painfully sweet marshmallow bunnies as a child, but this was a whole other animal. This was an Easter delicacy.

Cadbury has always closely guarded its secret recipe but this much is known:

The Creme Egg season runs (appropriate verb) from New Year’s Day to Easter Day and is an integral part of the British calendar.

Launched in 1971, they are mere juveniles in comparison to the venerable Dairy Milk, but 300 million are sold every year. To meet this demand, the company’s Bournville plant can turn out more than 1.5 million a day. When everything’s going well.

Until recently, the manufacturing process was a closely guarded secret, but they are made  –  as you might expect  –  by pouring Cadbury’s chocolate into a half-egg shaped mould, which is then filled with a white fondant, plus a dab of yellow to represent the yolk. Because the fondant is denser than the chocolate, the two liquids don’t mix  –  instead, the fondant pushes the chocolate outwards to coat the mould.

Two half-moulds are then put together to make an egg, and the chocolate is allowed to set before the moulds are tapped with a hammer to release the eggs for wrapping.

If you’d like to try making homemade crème eggs, there’s a good recipe at this website: http://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-Cadbury-Creme-Eggs/

Remember to send your loved ones one of our fun, charming Easter ecards. It’s a great way to reach out to friends and relatives this Easter.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk

Disco Gefilte Fish – Now You’ve Seen it All

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You’ve seen ecards. You’ve probably seen many ecards in your virtual lifetime. But how many Passover ecards have you seen that star disco-dancing Gefilte fish? Not many, not many at all, we’re guessing.

But we think outside of the Passover box here at Doozy. We like your holidays to be distinctive and creative (as well and reverent and spiritually fulfilling, of course).

If you don’t like gefilte fish (it can be an acquired taste, to say the least), disco-dancing gefilte fish may be as close as you get to the dish this year.

Pass this ecard along to your loved ones this Passover. Or peruse our collection of funny Passover ecards for one that suits your tastes.

Maybe it will make up for the gefilte fish?

Simplifying Passover

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The problem with most holidays? We create more work than is needed and often feel stressed out by it, instead of feeling connected to our family or spiritually rewarded. Passover can easily fall into that category with an extensive menu and many layers of ritual.

Here are some tips to keep it simple this year:

Prepare dishes in advance. Spread out the labor by making dishes like the matzoh-ball soup, brisket and cakes in advance. Set the table in advance as well.

Save the work. Keep grocery lists and recipes from the previous years stored in one spot so you don’t have to re-invent the wheel each year.

Keep the focus where it needs to be. When it’s all said and done, Passover is a deeply religious holiday where families and friends connect and reflect. Don’t make it a cooking contest. Consider the mood and main point of the holiday. And relax!

Another way to simplify Passover? Send your loved ones a free Passover e-card. Does it get much simpler than that?

Truly Unique Passover Traditions

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With Passover right around the corner, we wanted to remind you to send your Jewish loved one a Passover ecard. It’s an easy way to share love and humor this holiday.

Now for some interesting Passover traditions that you may not have heard of, thanks to Beliefnet.com:

Every Passover, Jews prepare charoset, a sweet fruit paste. The result is meant to remind seder-goers of the mortar in the bricks that Jewish slaves in Egypt used in their labor. In the British territory of Gibraltar, a tiny peninsula off of Spain, where Jews have lived for about 650 years, there’s a special recipe for charoset: the dust of real bricks, ground up and mixed in.

Hasidic Jews from the Polish town of Góra Kalwaria, known as Gerer Hasids, re-enact the crossing of the Red Sea on the seventh day of Passover by pouring water on the floor, lifting up their coats, and naming the towns that they would cross in their region of Poland. They raise a glass at each “town” and then thank God for helping them reach their destination.

In a custom that began in Spain in the fourteenth century, the seder leader walks around the table three times with the seder plate in hand, tapping it on the head of each guest. Many Moroccan, Turkish, and Tunisian Jews adopted this tradition, which is said to bless those whose heads are tapped.

Perhaps you can connect with your worldwide family by integrating a new Passover custom (though you may want to pass on the brick dust).

Or how about a virtual tradition? Send your loved ones a Passover ecard to mark the holiday.

Is Green Beer Good for your Health?

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Yes, most definitely.

The End.

Okay, seriously, what’s the appeal of green beer on St. Patrick’s Day anyway? Isn’t including some green in your outfit festive enough? You have to ingest green?

Well, its dye. So its definitely not one of the four food groups or anything. And it is artificial coloring, not exactly Mother Nature approved. But a night’s worth of it is probably not going to kill you either.

But check this out: green beer can often be an embarrassing indicator of poor dental hygiene.

“Green beer can act like the colorful disclosing plaque rinses used to teach kids where they’re missing brushing and make your teeth just scream with green color on the parts where the problems are,” cautions Dr. Joseph Roberts, a Philadelphia Top Dentist and co-owner of Rittenhouse’s Philly Smiles.

Definitely, if you plan on picking up a hot dude or chick at the local pub, you may want to think twice. Green teeth does not scream sexy.

Give a kiss of the Irish to a friend or loved one this St. Patrick’s Day by sending a St. Patrick’s Day ecard.

Source: Philly Magazine – http://www.phillymag.com/articles/ask-a-top-dentist-is-green-beer-bad-for-my-teeth-030810/