Natural Egg Dyes: How Easy It Is To Dye Eggs With Husks, Spices And Vegetables

A day or two before Easter, we will paint and paint eggs, prepare dishes for the festive table and decorate the apartment.

A day or two before Easter, we will paint and paint eggs, prepare dishes for the festive table and decorate the apartment. If you intend to dye eggs only with natural dyes, then this article is for you. Happy and bright Easter to you!

General recipe for natural dyes

We will need boiled chicken or quail eggs (4-6 pieces), a couple of tablespoons of 9% vinegar, 2-4 cups of water and dye (in our case, a spoonful of turmeric, half a head of red cabbage or beets). An exception is the coloring of eggs in onion skins - we will use raw eggs. We will prepare a decoction of vegetables or spices separately. And then we put boiled eggs in it and forget about them for the time being.

 

What colors will we get using vegetables and seasonings:

saffron - yellow; beets - pink or burgundy; red cabbage - blue, pale blue; turmeric - orange-brown; onion peel - yellow, brown; spinach - bright yellow, pale green; coffee - dark brown.

red cabbage

 

Finely chop the cabbage, add a couple of tablespoons of table vinegar and two glasses of water. Leave until cabbage releases juice. Then place the boiled eggs in the juice and leave overnight. You can boil raw eggs in such juice, however, their color will turn out to be a pale gray-blue. Bright blue eggs are obtained by soaking them in fresh juice.

Beet

 

Grate the beets on a coarse grater, put in a saucepan, add 40 ml of vinegar and 2 cups of water. Cook covered for 20 minutes after boiling over medium-slow heat. Strain the finished broth and fill it with boiled hard-boiled eggs. Leave the eggs in the broth for half an hour and you will get a pink tint, if you keep it overnight, a burgundy color will come out.

onion peel

 

Husks for coloring eggs are best collected in advance in a separate linen bag. If you didn’t take care of it in time, then when buying onions, pick up more husks in the store. Usually, before Easter, the husks are also sold separately. Will have to buy. In addition to onion peel, you will need gauze or old stockings (tights), thread, sprigs of dill, parsley or arugula. We will dye raw chicken eggs.

 

Step 1. Prepare the husks, eggs, dill and parsley sprigs, gauze or tights, a spool of thread and scissors. 

 

Step 2. Press a sprig of parsley to the egg and wrap it with a piece of gauze or put it in a stocking. Then tie the egg "in the bag" with a thread at the base. 

 

Step 3. In this way, "pack" all the eggs in pantyhose...

 

...or gauze.

 

Step 4. Put the onion skins and eggs in a saucepan and cover with water. There should be a lot of husks. Put on fire, bring to a boil, then cook for another 15 minutes. Leave the eggs in the broth until cool, then remove and peel off the onion peel, gauze or pantyhose. 

 

Before cooking, rice can still be added to a stocking with an egg, eggs can also be wrapped with a thread - an interesting pattern will turn out. Some additionally wrap the eggs with a bright cloth, it will paint the shell in its own color. White eggs are more "pure" in color than brown eggs. Experiment!