Seder tips

[Dilbertian]

I thought we might share some tips to make prepping for the Seder a little easier.

• If you start the meal with hardboiled eggs in salt water, and have many to prepare, cook them on low in the slow cooker overnight. The yolks come out creamy, not dry, and the whites are set and soft, not rubbery.

•Buy the eggs asap. Do not use fresh eggs. The fresher the eggs the harder they are to peel.

• To peel the eggs, crack them and put them in a bowl of water. Swish vigorously with your hands in the water so that the eggs bash against each other. Water gets under the shells and loosens them, making it even easier to remove the shell.

Any more Seder tips?

Small bowls under the wine cups, fewer spills.

we warm the potatoes for the Karpas. Yum!

Make the seder as interactive as possible, and fun for the kids. It’s all about them :) we have all sorts of props and things and we involve them the whole way through.

no point doing a heavy elaborate meal for the seuda. No one wants that at midnight or whenever it is. Keep it simple.

I agree with @EllaDisenchanted. We keep the Seder as child friendly and interactive as possible. We have lots of jumping frogs, cotton wool balls for hail, blue tissue paper and Lego men for the Red Sea and encourage the children to tell the story to the adults.

I love the different traditions around the Seder - we have Moroccan friends and at the start of their Seder all the men stand outside wearing white djellaba (traditional white tunics) and then come inside hopping on one foot.

My Persian friends hit each other with leeks or spring onions when they sing Diaynu דיאנו (something my kids thought would be fun to adopt!)