Nowadays, chemical dyes are used to dye eggs. And how did you paint eggs before the appearance of such dyes?
Here are some recipes to color your eggs beautifully.
Onion peel. This is the most famous method and one of the most beloved: eggs are still painted with onion husks. A saucepan with husks (it will take a lot) needs to be filled with hot water, boiled for several minutes, cooled and filtered. Add eggs to the cooled broth and boil them. The broth can not be filtered, then the eggs will turn out spotty, "marble".
If you use red onion hulls, the eggs will turn reddish brown.
Nettle. If a young nettle has already hatched for the holidays, you can try to boil eggs with it. Young nettle plants need to be poured with water, boiled for several minutes, then cooled and filtered, then boiled eggs in it. The color of the shell colored in this way will be light green.
Birch buds. Eggs boiled in a decoction of birch buds (prepare the decoction in the same way as in the previous recipes) will get a light yellow color or yellow with a tint of green.
Turmeric. Boil 2 teaspoons of turmeric in 3 glasses of water for seven to ten minutes, cool the broth (at this time it will infuse and become more saturated). Add eggs, boil until tender. You will get a beautiful golden shell shade.
Red cabbage. Chop the cabbage, cover with water. Boil cabbage and boil eggs in cooled broth - they will acquire a beautiful pale purple color. If you don't strain the broth, the eggs will be spotty.
To make the color of the shell colored according to any of these recipes more saturated, leave the eggs in the broth overnight. Brush the eggs with sunflower oil for a beautiful shine.
As we can see, there were many options for folk recipes. We can easily apply many of them even now. I am sure that the result will please.
