Natural Easter Egg Dyes
From peetabear 15 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 0
this is the way I color my Easter Eggs.... well not always!!!.... this is from foods found in the kitchen
Ingredients
- • Red cabbage leaves produce a robin's egg blue color. shopping list
- • orange peels create a tender yellow shopping list
- • carrot tops yield a smoky yellow green shopping list
- • yellow Delicious apple peelings dye eggs pale lavender flecked with soft rust. shopping list
- • Brown (not white) onion peels dye orange. shopping list
- • fresh spinach gives you a pinkish color with gray-green buffs. shopping list
How to make it
- To dye eggs, place in a pan and cover with water. Add 1 teaspoon of vinegar and dye material. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer gently 20 minutes.
- The color will deepen or change if the eggs are left in the dye solution overnight.
- DO NOT eat the eggs if you leave them out of the refrigerator over night!
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Thanks for this post my family paint eggs for easter also :)
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in My Kitchen loved it
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When I was 5 years old, my mom dyed brown eggs in onion skins and hid them in an old orange crate outside. They were a beautiful deep copper shade and I thought they were real Easter Bunny eggs. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!
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in London loved it
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Cool. Thanks for the post, peeta. 5 forks
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