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How to Make Cress Egg Heads

by Jane Lake

Cress, sometimes called pepper grass, has a distinctive peppery taste that adds a little spice to cheese or egg salad sandwiches. It also makes a nice addition to salads.

Cress Egg Heads

Supplies:

eggshell

egg cup

felt tip markers, acrylic paint or paint markers

cotton wool

cress seeds - packets of cress seeds should be available locally, but you can also order Sprouting Seed Curled Cress from Park Seed Vegetable Seeds at Amazon.

Cress Egg Heads

Instructions:

1. Enjoy a boiled egg for breakfast, then remove any remaining pieces of egg from inside the shell and wash it out.

2. Return the egg to your egg cup, then draw or paint on some facial features. A wide range of facial expressions are possible, so you might want to practice a few on paper until you create a face that you like.

3. Dampen a little cotton wool and place it inside the egg.

4. Sprinkle a layer of cress seeds on top of the cotton wool.

5. Cover the egg with a piece of paper until the seeds begin to sprout, then remove the paper cover and move to a window sill.

6. Sprinkle with a little water every day.

7. After your egg head has sprouted fully, give it a "hair cut" to make an egg salad and cress sandwich. You can add more cotton and more seeds to grow another egg head!