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Natural Egg Easter Dyes

Type: Vegetables
Serves: 1 people

Recipe Ingredients

  Spring Chicken Yellow
1 teaspoon 5mlTumeric
2/3 cup 157ml- boiling water
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlVinegar
  Easter Bunny Brown
1 tablespoon 15mlInstant coffee - heaping tbsp
2/3 cup 157ml- boiling water
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlVinegar
  Seren"dip"ity
  Boil Egg With One Of The
  Following
  Onion skins - (golden orange)
  Beets - (reddish purple)
  Spinach - (pale green)
  Red cabbage leaves
  Walnut shells - (buff)
  Grape juice - (mauve) &
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlVinegar

Recipe Instructions

Wash eggs in mild soapy water to remove oily coating which could prevent dye from adhering. Simmer for 20 minutes. Spring Chicken Yellow: Add turmeric to boiling water, stir until dissolved. Add vinegar. Easter Bunny Brown: Add heaping Tbsp heaping instant coffee to boiling water, stir to dissolve. Add vinegar.

Seren "dip" ity: Try boiling eggs with one of the listed ingredients.

Add 1/4 tsp vinegar to water.

Source:
Suzy Crofton of Montparnasse, Naperville, IL

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