The tradition is to make the head of the monk from a boiled egg coloured red. When you have made your plait, in the endmost part of the dough make a hole with your fingers in which to place the egg, keeping the thickest part upwards. This technique of "embedding" real hard-boiled eggs also exists in other regions: in Puglia, for example, there are the famous ‘scarcelle’; in Sicily, similarly, is the famous ‘cicilio’.