The Easter Bread Quest

Everyone has holiday memories.  Some of us even try to recreate them.  For Easter it was a tradition to have a family brunch and a special bread was baked at that time -- the infamous "Easter Bread".  This bread was twisted into a rope with hard boiled eggs entwined inside.  yup... rope and eggs..
We have been on a quest to find the recipe that recreates this bread, it has not been easy - no written recipes can be found that actually make the same bread.  So this year we have found an old recipe book published by our old parish that has a recipe an Aunt of ours used to make.  Problem is the recipe seems to be missing something -- like the amount of yeast -- and how many it loaves it makes -- 5lbs of flour seems like a lot for 1 loaf don't you think???  So here we go.

-D & G

Recipe Book