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Put the egg in the ‘head’ of the loaf

Tips
To give your boiled egg a beautiful red colour, you can boil it, as in the recipe, with lots of red onion skins. Alternatively, you could simply avail yourself of some food colouring.
Trivia
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’.