My Bio Grandma had a cookbook, and Step Grandma had it for years, then gave it to me. I was looking through it, and it has some neat stuff for making dyed Easter eggs. Now, this was before store bought stuff. So it was "natural".
I was amused with the first one, coffee. I would save a step, just get brown eggs! :)
But it mentioned things like walnut husks, (wear gloves!!), grape juice, yellow and red onion skins, berry juice (mentioned strawberries, but I know blackberries would work, too).
I had some hens that would lay green, and blue colored eggs, no longer have them. I now have some that lay pink and brown eggs. So, I guess, Grandma and Grandma and I would have quite the color spectrum for Easter eggs!
(I think there were several more, but I don't have the book with me, it was a page or so of colors, what item made what color, how to decorate, etc... But it was fun to look at, even if I am not inclined to dye eggs right now.)
2 comments:
Dying eggs certainly isn't a modern invention. Those old colors may not have been as bright and garish as some of the store bought stuff, but it was fun and pretty nonetheless.
No, I seem to remember there being things mentioned about coloring eggs even in the Middle Ages. But, none the less, it was some neat ideas! (But messy, even then!) :)
Cat
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