Saturday 7 April 2012

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Natural Easter Eggs


We made Easter eggs the old fashioned way this year. With stockings and leaves and onion peel. They came out beautifully



To make your own, you will need
  • old thin stockings or tights. Holes don't matter
  • Some small decoratively shaped leaves and flowers. Soft leaves are best
  • lots of onion peel
  • a pot
  • hot water
  • maybe some string
  • white eggs
  • some oil or bacon
  • scissors
  • an egg puncher

 Punch a small hole into your egg. If you don't have the custom kitchen implement, I find cork screws a good replacement. Then  distribute a few leaves over it, putting them as flat against the egg as possible and hold them in place by sticking the eggs into your old stockings. Tie them off, either directly with the stocking or using some string.


Put your onion peel in a pot big enough to hold all your eggs, cover with enough water to cover the eggs later and bring to the boil. When the water is bubbling, put in your eggs and boil them for 10 minutes. Take them out, rinse them quickly under cold water and cut off the stockings. Peel off any remaining leaves. To make them shiny, rub a little bit of oil or a piece of bacon over the eggs before they cool.


The other eggs were died using shop-bought natural colours using the same technique. It still worked brilliantly.

20 comments:

  1. They ARE beautiful, we may try this next year. :)

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  2. Those are beautiful! I've never heard of decorating eggs like this.

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    1. Thanks. :) Really? My mother taught me this years and years ago.

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  3. Great look - very adorable <3

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  4. Onion skins? How interesting. They turned out beautifully.

    Loulou

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    1. Onion skin dies things yellow like nothing good. I accidentally tipped some on my white shirt and had serious trouble getting it back out...

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  5. Wirklich schön geworden! =)

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  6. Yes, I’m doing this for years. I’ve experimented a lot with natural egg colours, but I’m always comming back to onion - it’s just the best.
    The colours will be deeper if you let the eggs longer sit in the paint. A few hours and they will look great!
    If your use red onions the result will be more on the deep-red-brown side

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    1. I knew I could count on you for extra information :) I aleady really liked them the way they came out. Don't they just go a deep brown if you let them sit in there for longer?

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    2. My pleasure ;)
      Yes, more time, more brown.
      But it’s a verrrry lovely golden-red-brown. I don’t know if it goes on indefinitely, or of the process stops after a couple of hours ..

      The red variety ist more like this:
      http://www.geo.de/div/image/2160/01.jpg

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    3. Wow, that does look awesome too. I might have to try that next time :)

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  7. Und da sind sie wieder! Diese Art des Färbens scheint der Renner dieses Jahr zu sein! Aber deine sind besodners gut gelungen, das muss ich zugeben! :-)

    Liebe Grüße,
    papillionis

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    1. Wirklich? Und ich dachte, ich wuesste mal was neues. Immer das gleiche mit dem Internet *seufz* ;)

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  8. I made some with the same technique just this morning! Not with that much variety and not with onion dye, though (maybe next year?).
    Yours look lovely, and I hove you've had a great day so far!

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    1. Give it a try! It's easy, cheap and looks lovely. :) Most of the leaves we used were some sort of weeds from the garden. Funny, how those come in handy sometimes.

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  9. oh they are so beautiful! last time i died eggs in the age of 10 or so..

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    1. Really? My family is big on easter traditions. This was the first year my mother refused to hide them in the garden afterwards. My sisters and I (all over the age of 16) were very sad.

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