Interest egg

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Interest eggs (also Hubeier ) are those eggs that used by farmers as a ground rent or ground rent or rent to the landlord , are given at the end of the interest-year ended in the Middle Ages before Easter had.

The Easter date came because in the Middle Ages it was forbidden for Christians to eat eggs during Lent because chicken eggs were considered a meat dish. The resulting excess eggs were used to pay the rent. What was left was eaten in the family for Easter.

The problem of shelf life was solved by boiling the eggs and coloring them - mostly with beetroot - to distinguish them from the uncooked eggs .

Above all in the church sector, however, the Zinsei soon became the gift that was given back to staff, benefactors, poor people and later, but increasingly also to children, during the Easter period.

With the abolition of the lordship and the replacement of natural products by money, the Easter egg soon developed from the Schenkei in the current sense.

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