Before Easter there comes a time of pleasant hassle. Housewives do the cleaning, bake fragrant Easter cakes, paint eggs. The traditional color of Easter eggs is red-brown, obtained with the help of a decoction of onion peels. How to achieve a beautiful, even color and avoid egg cracking when boiling?
It is necessary
Eggs, salt, onion peels, black tea, beets, paints
Instructions
Step 1
Use white eggs for a vibrant color. To firmly fix the paint on the egg, wipe it with vinegar before boiling. You can also wash with soap and leave to dry without wiping. Do not stain eggs that have just been removed from the refrigerator - the shells may crack during cooking. They should lie down at room temperature for about an hour.
Step 2
Prepare a decoction of onion husks: boil it for 20 minutes to make a strong solution. If you want to give the eggs a rich color, increase the solution preparation time to half an hour. Strain and cool it.
Step 3
Cook the eggs in the resulting onion infusion, adding 1 tbsp before cooking. salt. Hard-boiled eggs are boiled for 10 minutes over low or medium heat. If you like eggs with liquid yolk - "in a bag" - reduce the cooking time to 5 minutes.
Step 4
There are several ways to create patterns on an egg. The easiest one is to buy Easter stickers from the store. They look very elegant on colored eggs. Want to surprise your guests? Take openwork leaves of parsley, carrots, houseplants. Attach them to the eggs and tie them tightly with threads. Dip the egg itself in a stocking and cook in a strong onion solution for about 20 minutes. The effect of "marble shell" will be obtained if the eggs are wrapped in onion skins and tied with a cotton cloth. Dip wet eggs in dry rice and boil in onion peel broth to create an original speck.
Step 5
If you do not have onion husks, you can paint the eggs in a strong tea brew (100 g of tea for 0.5 liters of water, insist, cook for 15 minutes). The tea will give the eggs a beautiful brown hue. Soak the pre-boiled eggs in the water where the beets were boiled. The shell will take on a pale pink color.
Step 6
The finished egg can be cooled and painted with acrylics or watercolors. To create a mosaic, carefully glue colored pieces of shell onto the surface of the egg. An egg made using the fashionable decoupage technique is obtained by sticking flowers cut from a paper napkin on it.
