How easy it is to paint eggs
For Easter, eggs are painted and cakes are baked during Holy Week on Maundy Thursday, which falls on April 28 in 2019. On Easter eggs are not only eaten, but also presented to each other with the words "Christ is Risen!" and receive in response: "Indeed he is risen!" - this must be taken into account when calculating the required number of Easter eggs. Usually at least a dozen are painted.
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White eggs - 10 pieces
Salt - 1 tablespoon
Vegetable oil - 1 teaspoon
Water - 1.5 liters
Onion peels - 3 handfuls
How to paint eggs with onion skins
1. Prepare the onion peel, for this remove the dry shells from about 15 onions (you can also take the peel in large stores in advance, it usually does not remain by Easter).
2. Wash the eggs thoroughly under running water, the stamp about the variety can be wiped off with a sponge and detergent. There should be no cracks on the shell, into which paint will penetrate during cooking, since it will leave unappetizing stains on the protein.
3. Put in a saucepan 25 grams of onion husks (3 handfuls) and pour 1.5 liters of cold water. Onion skins can stain the enamel of pots, so it's best to use old pans.
4. Put a saucepan with onion peels on the stove, bring the contents to a boil and cook for 10 minutes over low heat under a lid.
5. Cool the resulting broth, which by the end of cooking will acquire a rich red-brown color.
6. Strain the broth through a sieve or colander. In order for the eggs to be colored evenly, there should be no pieces of husk in the coloring composition. You don't need to filter, but in this case, stains may remain on the eggs.
7. Pour 1 tablespoon of salt into a slightly cooled coloring broth and put eggs, which should be completely covered with broth. It is better to lay eggs in one layer, and if they do not fit, paint in several batches.
8. Bring the contents of the pot to a boil and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes.
9. After the end of cooking, you can immediately take out the eggs, or you can leave them in the broth until they cool to get a more intense color. The dye composition can be reused if you need to dye a large number of eggs.
10. Put the cooled eggs on a paper towel, blot with water.
Quail and chicken eggs boiled in onion skins
The color of Easter eggs is from bright red to burgundy, the total cooking time is 1-2 hours.
Not only chicken eggs, but also quail eggs are dyed in onion skins. Onion peels can be used in a more original way: put on eggs, fix with cotton thread and then cook. The eggs will acquire color and original pattern.
Decorating a colored egg: pour into the palms and grind 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil. Take each egg and roll it in your palms. As a result of this manipulation, the eggs will acquire shine, their color will become brighter.
How to paint eggs with dyes
1. Boil the eggs, cool slightly (not completely, so that the shell does not burst from the temperature drop when the eggs are immersed in hot water.2. Pour 100 milliliters of hot (80-85 degrees) water into mugs - this is enough, for example, to completely immerse an egg in an ikeevka mug.
3.Pour the dyes into the circles with a spoon, add several different dyes to the mug to get new colors.
4. Pour 1 tablespoon of 9% vinegar into mugs, stir and put an egg in each mug. 5. Wait 3-5 minutes, then put the eggs on a plate, wipe each with a clean napkin and cool, put in the refrigerator.
6. Place the next batch of eggs in the mugs.
If you want even more originality - paint quail eggs, turkey eggs or guinea-fowl eggs for Easter.
How to bake Easter cakes
How to make original egg colors 1. Soak eggs in water and roll in rice. Place each egg in a piece of bandage and tie it on top. Next, cook in any of the described coloring compositions: in onion husks, beet broth or brilliant green solution.
2. Similarly, instead of rice, you can use buckwheat, herbs, leaves, millet.
3. Wrap the eggs with cotton threads, preferably thick, and cook in any dye composition. Under the threads, the shell will be slightly stained, so an intricate pattern will appear on the egg.
Eggs in rice
4. Put the eggs in a saucepan, add water and cook after boiling for 10 minutes. Cool under running cold water and pat dry with paper towel. Sponge the freshly squeezed juice of carrots, beets, red or yellow bell peppers onto the eggs.
5. Young birch leaves easily stick to the egg. If such an egg is boiled in a dye composition, a leaf stencil will remain on it.
6. You can use various wrappers and stickers for industrial eggs, or you can get creative and paint the painted eggs with food paints, varnish or gouache.
7. A variety of egg wrappers and stickers are sold - in the pre-Easter season, in almost all grocery stores. They look pretty, but there is no personal participation in the creative process of decorating eggs. In addition, eggs with thermal stickers are not suitable for long-term storage; after a couple of days, their shelf life will expire.
8. Easter eggs can be painted with watercolors - they are harmless to health.
How to dye eggs with beets
1. Wash, peel, coarsely grate 2 large beets. The amount of beets can be increased to obtain a richer color.2. Wash eggs (10 pieces) thoroughly, check that they are free of cracks.
3. Pour 1.5 liters of water into a saucepan, add beets, bring the contents of the saucepan to a boil and cook for 40 minutes. To fix the color at the end of cooking, you can add a tablespoon of 9% vinegar or lemon juice.
4. Cool the beet broth.
5. Pour a tablespoon of salt into the cold beetroot broth and put the eggs, which should be completely covered with the coloring broth.
6. Bring the contents of the pan to a boil and cook the eggs in the beetroot broth for 10 minutes.
7. Leave the finished eggs to cool in the beet broth for 2 hours. To obtain the most saturated color, leave the eggs in the beet broth for a day.
Dry the finished eggs with a paper towel and brush each with vegetable oil to add shine.
The color of Easter eggs on beets is burgundy, the total cooking time is 3-10 hours.
How to color eggs with tea
1. Put 2 tablespoons of green mate tea in a bowl, pour 1 liter of boiling water and leave for half an hour.2. When the tea is infused and turns green, pour into the tea leaves in a saucepan, put the eggs and cook in the tea leaves.
3. Leave the chicken eggs in the brew for another 1 hour.
The color of Easter eggs boiled in green mate tea is pale green, the total cooking time is 2 hours.
How to dye eggs with turmeric
1.Pour 1 liter of water into a saucepan, bring to a boil, add 2 tablespoons of turmeric and boil for 2 minutes.2. Cool the solution so that the eggs do not burst; put eggs and cook for 10 minutes after boiling.
3. Leave the boiled eggs in the solution for 1 hour.
The color of Easter eggs on turmeric is pale yellow, the total cooking time is 2 hours.
How to color coffee eggs
1.Pour 10 tablespoons of natural ground coffee into a saucepan and pour 1 liter of cold water.2. Add 1 tablespoon of salt and washed eggs to a saucepan, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes.
3. Leave the eggs in the coffee dye for 2 hours to brown.
The color of Easter eggs on coffee is brown, the total cooking time is 3.5-4 hours.
How to paint eggs with birch leaves
1. Put 1 cup of dry birch leaves or a bunch of young birch leaves together with twigs into a saucepan, pour cold water and bring to a boil.2. Birch broth for half an hour.
3. Pour a tablespoon of salt into the cooled birch broth, add eggs, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes.
4. Leave the eggs in the broth for 12 hours, after which they will acquire a beautiful golden hue.
The color of the Easter eggs is golden, the cooking time is 12 hours.
How to paint eggs with brilliant green and onion peel "marbled"
Prepare: eggs, onion peels, brilliant green, a wide bandage (or nylon footprints), gloves.1. From the bandage, cut 10 strings and 10 pieces 20 centimeters long.
2. Cut the onion husk into small pieces with scissors and pour into a bowl.
3. Soak the eggs in water, put them in a bowl with pieces of onion husks, turn over several times so that the husks stick to the eggs. To avoid a solid green color, it is important that the crushed husk covers the entire egg.
4. Spread a piece of bandage, put an egg with a husk in the middle, lift the ends of the bandage up and fasten with a string. So prepare all 10 eggs. Or to pack everything in the footsies - 2 eggs will fit in 1 footsteps, you can tie them without a thread.
5. Pour 1.5 liters of water into a saucepan, add 1 tablespoon of salt.
6. Put eggs in a saucepan, bring contents to a boil, cook for 5 minutes.
7. Pour in half a bottle of greenery - it is better to act with gloves.
8. Insist eggs in the coloring broth for 10-20 minutes.
9. Take out the eggs, remove the cooking container, rinse with cold water and brush with shine oil.
Painted eggs, including marbled eggs.
