One of the most important Orthodox holidays - it's Easter. To this day, all painted eggs and prepare the festive cakes. But not everyone knows what are the ways of painting eggs without using chemicals. Of these 5 methods will be discussed below.
1. onion peel
This way of painting can be considered the most popular, because the husks of onions found in every home. With this method the color of eggs can be both brown and yellow, sometimes red.
To prepare a special broth in which to dip the egg, it is necessary to take a large pan and fill it with water exactly half. Followed by filling the pan onion peel and boil it about 50 minutes. Broth should turn dark in color. But you must get the egg from the refrigerator and allow them to infuse the room for about one hour.
After the water in the tank will take a dark color, you need to dip the eggs and boil them about another 10-11 minutes.
2. Turmeric
For painting, it is desirable to choose turmeric white eggs. They can also be heated to room temperature. Then you must take a pot, pour the water back, add a spoonful of salt, vinegar and turmeric itself. Once the broth has boiled, add the eggs and cook for another ten minutes.
3. hibiscus
For this method you must take eggs are white. Tea brewed hibiscus tea as a simple, and then poured into a container in which to put the egg white. To get a light gray-blue hue, separate the egg must be kept in this infusion for 3 minutes, then again removed and dried, and then dipped again. Only in this way can turn a beautiful gray-blue color.
4. Cabbage
For this method, the color is better to choose the egg white and red cabbage. You can even choose a sluggish swinging, as they still give a blue color.
To prepare the broth you need to chop two Kachan cabbage, add it to the pan, pour it with water and add vinegar. This is necessary to remove the pan in the refrigerator and wait overnight. On the morning of cabbage should give red juice.
Eggs must be pre-cook and cabbage juice drain. Then you need to lower the eggs in the infusion and keep them there for as long as they are not highlighted in blue. The duration of the eggs stay in the infusion depends on the color saturation.
5. Madame Kandurin
Madame Kandurin - is a type of food coloring that is used in cooking to decorate cakes. They also can be painted Easter eggs. When applied to the surface can be obtained as a gold and silver shades.
One type of coating Madame Kandurin eggs is that eggs need to pre-boil and cool. Then taken dry brush or toothbrush dipped in the diluted dye and sprayed onto the surface of eggs (they can be pre-paint in any color, e.g., blue). In this case, a speck and interesting patterns.
To cover the entire surface must be applied on dry, dry dye eggs, rub your hands or a sponge.
And you paint eggs for Easter? What's your favorite way? Share in the comments!
