Easter Egg Dye Starts with Cooking with Eggs Particularly How to Boil Eggs

Before the Easter egg dye, you must know how to boil eggs. The following directions will give you hard boiled eggs that are easy to peel.

BOILING EGGS: Have eggs at room temperature. Bring a large kettle of water to boiling. Carefully put the eggs in the water with a large spoon. Reduce heat to medium and simmer eggs for 15 minutes. Set pan in sink and carefully dump out hot water but not the eggs. Immediately dump lots of ice over the eggs to cool them quickly. This process will make the eggs easy to peel.

Many of us are trying to keep chemicals out of our home and especially out of our foods. This applies to coloring our Easter eggs. Bright colors are hard to come up with but with effort you can color some very pretty pastel colored eggs. The longer the egg remains in the dye mixture the darker it will be.

Boil white eggs before you make Easter egg dye. The white always colors best. While still warm you can make designs on the eggs with crayons if you like. Where the wax from the crayons is applied no color will adhere from the dye. For a more smooth and uniform solid color on the eggs, strain the dye mixture with cheesecloth.

A basic recipe to make natural egg coloring is:

• 3 to 4 Tablespoons of spice or 3 to 4 cups of vegetables


• 1 to 2 Tablespoons white vinegar to make the dyes stick to the eggs


• 2 Cups water

Boil ingredients in water to reach desired colors. Let cool before adding eggs into the dye so as not to further cook the eggs.

• FOR YELLOW EGGS: Yellow turmeric, Yellow-brown onionskins, Chamomile tea


• FOR PINK EGGS: Cranberry juice or smashed cranberries, Red beets, Rose hip, Red zinger tea, Smashed raspberries


• FOR BLUE EGGS: Crushed blueberries,/li>
  
• FOR PURPLE OR LAVENDER EGGS: Shredded red cabbage, Grape juice


• FOR BROWN EGGS: Coffee grounds, Black tea


• FOR GREEN EGGS: Spinach, kale or other greens

Use your imagination and experiment with other ingredients to come up with more colors. Mix your color s to make more colors.

For more Easter ides look below.

• Easter bunny cake


• Leg of lamb


• Hot cross buns


• Quiche Lorraine

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