Hard-Boiled Advice on How to Dye Easter Eggs

 I blame a childhood egg hunt, door-to-contractor removed and birthday parties for adults with obsessive craft theme and event planning. Valentine? I have my hand pop-up card. Christmas? Put on a game! Your fish is dead? Here is a small box which I delight to his funeral. So I chose freedom of the music, I think he would have gladly taken for the service. It begins at sunset. You just?

It was the Sunday before Easter, when I set my goal to dye eggs. What fun! I took a turn to the Internet for some food blogs, see Feeding network and looked, and of course, is Martha Stewart. Although I was immediately able to modify its proposal to buy eggs of different sizes, quail, geese and ostriches, which caught my attention was the use of the idea of ​​contempt of the kitchen my own dye with beets, red cabbage and turmeric to create basic colors.

To make things interesting, however, I decided it would be fair to try a traditional kit was purchased. And after three days devoted to egg color Arts and cleaning the kitchen, I completed Martha Stewart is the devil, and Paas, with its Happy Bunny and irresistible candy colors running in second place.

Really, they are for the long hours spent chopping and dicing debt smoldering pots of soup inedible, and wash the dishes. Many dishes. You are to blame, bleach stains ease, taking the Lord's name in vain, and a pile of red cabbage cooked in the refrigerator. Then of course there are the eggs. Two dozen of them.

But, oh, what beautiful eggs for them.

Soft, subtle shades of blush baby, morning sky, fresh butter and grass in summer. Deep, rich shades of emerald, saffron and terra cotta. Acid-bright yellow shades, green and blue.

If you are patient and do not mind a mess, a method for producing eggs too good to think about someone they were made by the Easter Bunny. Go ahead and brag.

Purchases of raw materials to make dyes has been a bit spendy, so this is not a good plan if you're pinching pennies. fresh beets, red cabbage, a head, a dozen egg whites, and a 16 ounce bottle of store brand white distilled vinegar ran me $ 9.02 at a local store. Turmeric and salt comes from my own closet. I also bought a dozen organic eggs brown again with the suggestion of Martha Stewart experience. It was $ 3.99. I suggest to the egg whites.

In comparison, the cost Paas Dye kit $ 2.71, including taxes, for sale. Add eggs to a dozen and vinegar and the total is $ 6.49, or about 28 percent cheaper.

For dyeing, I followed the instructions Eats serious. For red, I cut two carrots (about ¾ pound), for with 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1 tablespoon salt and 1 liter of water in a saucepan. Simmer the mixture is heated to boiling, then 30 minutes. For the blue, I followed the same vinegar, salt, water and measurements is about 1 kilo of chopped red cabbage, cooked the 30 minutes. For yellow, repeat fluid and salt to about 6 tablespoons of turmeric and bring to a boil. No need to simmer, however.

Let cool before using dyes.

To enable Paas dyes, just use the tablet in a cup or glass are suitable for dyeing eggs, then add 3 tablespoons of vinegar. After the tablet has dissolved, add ½ cup water. Are you ready to color eggs.

The kit comes with nine dye tablets, many of which appear in blue. You do not really know what you get blue, green, blue, denim, purple or confused-up. There are also yellow, orange, pink, red and green.

A word of warning: tiny tablets like candy. If children help you keep an eye on it. Nobody wants a purple mouth on their little angel.

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