This month, Plenty Magazine offered a recipe for a Do-It-Yourself egg dye for all of you who are worried about the chemicals in those Paas packs. But Paas are overrated anyway, right? I mean, the little stickers never change, and does anyone really use those colored shrink wraps? Natural dye (makes four cups of dye per color):
Mix the following in a pot:
-1 Tbsp. spice or herbal tea, or four cups of chopped fruit or veggies (see below for specific colors)
-4 cups water
-2 Tbsp. white vinegar
Bring to a boil, then simmer for at least 15 minutes (leave longer for a darker shade).
Then, dip your eggs!
To get those pretty colors:
Pink/red: pomegranate juice, red onion skins, beets, rhubarb, cranberries, raspberries
Orange: yellow onion skins, paprika, saffron
Yellow: orange or lemon peels, carrot tops or skins, celery seed, ground cumin or turmeric
Green: spinach
Blue: red cabbage, canned blueberries or blueberry juice, blackberries, grape juice
3-18-2008 @10:37PM Marisa McClellan said... We dyed eggs this way when I was growing up. My mom was sort of crunchy in that way. We also tried to grow real grass in our Easter baskets. That one didn't work so well.
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3-19-2008 @4:29PM caesar937 said... Can you get the same deep colors with the vegetables that you get with the dye in the bottles?
What's the worry you don't eat the shells anyway?
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