With the arrival of spring and warmth, many are looking forward to the great holiday of Easter. Everyone associates this day with tall fragrant Easter cakes and, of course, with colorful Easter eggs.
There are many ways to dye eggs, thanks to which our table will become a real decoration of a great holiday.
Secrets of coloring Easter eggs
- Boil the eggs by pre-warming them to room temperature (you need to get the eggs out of the refrigerator 2 hours beforehand). This will help prevent cracks in the shell.
- During cooking, it is necessary to add table salt to the water, in the proportion of 1 tablespoon of salt to 2 liters of water. In the event that the shell breaks, the protein will not leak out.
- Eggs must be washed thoroughly before boiling.
- When dyeing eggs, for better paint adhesion, it is worth adding 9% acetic acid (1 tablespoon for one or two liters of water).
- After coloring, to shine the shell, rub the eggs with vegetable oil.
Staining eggs with onion skins
This method is the simplest. This will create deep orange, crimson Easter eggs. Pre-boil the onion peel in water for an hour. After this time has elapsed, place the eggs in water and boil them until tender. In order for the color to become more intense, before boiling the eggs, the broth should be given time to infuse.
Eggs can be given an unusual color, marbled or added zest, drawing.
If we want to achieve a marble shade, then we first need to grind the husk and a sheet of paper. After wetting the egg, roll it in a chopped onion husk blank and wrap it with gauze. Add one bottle of brilliant green to the water and boil the eggs.
Drawing on Easter eggs
To give a beautiful pattern, you can use carved stencils or use the help of nature. For these purposes, you can use parsley, dill, mint leaves. We attach an openwork sheet to the egg and wrap it with gauze, fasten with threads.
Onion hulls can be substituted with other natural materials.
If you use beet juice as a dye, then you will achieve a pink color, using turmeric will achieve a yellow shell. Blue shades are obtained when using hibiscus flowers, red cabbage.
Staining eggs with floss
Coloring eggs in this way is very simple, the result is bright multi-colored Easter eggs. We wind threads of floss of different colors on a raw egg, fix them and you can start cooking. Boil the eggs for 10-15 minutes to obtain the desired result.
