Dyeing eggs with onion skins for Easter is not only beautiful, but also useful. After all, industrial dyes, which are often used to color eggs for Easter, color not only the shell, but also the protein.
There are many natural dyes with which you can make eggs not only festive, but also safe on. But the undisputed leader among natural ingredients- This is an onion peel.
Dyeing eggs with onion skins is very simple, but you need to know a few secrets so that the color is rich and even.
How to prepare eggs for dyeing for Easter 2019:
- so that the eggs do not burst during cooking - take them out of the refrigerator at least half an hour before cooking. Or you can soak them in cold water for 15 minutes
- Before painting, wash the eggs well with soap and water. It is better to use an old toothbrush for washing;
Eggs dyed with onion skins for Easter 2019
- after you color the eggs - rub each of them with a napkin soaked vegetable oil. This will give a glossy sheen;
- optionally dyed with natural dyes, eggs should be plain. You can wrap each gauze with rice grains, ribbons or threads, and only then lower it into the dye. So interesting patterns will appear on the surface.
How to dye eggs with onion skins for Easter 2019
Ingredients:
- eggs;
- a few handfuls of onion peel;
- parsley leaves (optional)
- dry rice (optional)
- butter.
How to dye eggs with onion skins for Easter - ingredients
Remove the eggs from the refrigerator at least half an hour before cooking. Wash them well with soap. For a marble effect, white eggs are best, and you will get a richer color from dark-shelled eggs.
Boil the husk for at least an hour
Pour the onion peel with water, bring to a boil and cook for about 1 hour. In a decoction of onion peel that has cooled to room temperature, put the eggs and boil for another 15 minutes. Then let the eggs cool.
Put the eggs in the onion skins and boil for another 15 minutes
How to decorate eggs for Easter with dots? Take a wet egg, roll it in dry rice and wrap it tightly with gauze, securing the ends (by the way, many housewives successfully use women's tights).
Eggs dyed with onion skins and rice for Easter 2019
Eggs will turn out "marbled" with interesting pattern, if you place them directly in the onion peel, then wrap them in cheesecloth and wrap them tightly with threads on top.
Eggs dyed with onion skins for Easter 2019
You can also attach parsley leaves (or other small herbs) to the egg and also wrap tightly with gauze. This will give you the desired pattern.
Eggs dyed with onion skins and parsley for Easter 2019
Happy Easter!
Spring has come and the brightest holiday of the year is just around the corner - Happy Easter. It is customary to paint eggs for this holiday. Just imagine how pleasant it is to put on the table a special dish filled with Easter eggs, which are decorated with a variety of patterns and patterns, on Holy Sunday. These multi-colored symbols of the resurrection of Christ delight the eye and evoke extraordinary feelings, in anticipation of a real miracle.
Recipe for dyeing eggs in onion peel with a pattern of parsley leaves
Of course, every housewife has her own recipe for coloring eggs. We suggest you color the eggs in onion peel with a pattern of green leaves that leave an unusual pattern on them - an imprint.
Most importantly, put good thoughts and love into your work!
To dye eggs you will need:
- onion peel;
- eggs;
- parsley leaves or young leaves of trees;
- gauze or nylon tights;
- threads;
- scissors.
Preparing eggs for dyeing:
In order to prevent the eggs from bursting during the cooking process, they must be removed from the refrigerator approximately sixty minutes before the dyeing begins.
Then, the eggs must be washed with particular care so that they take on an even shade as a result of staining.
Also, to achieve a uniform color, the eggs can be wiped with alcohol or soda.
The process of preparing a decoction of onion peel
Put the onion peel into the pan and pour it over cold water. A beautiful red-brown color is obtained by using the husks of eight onions and two glasses of water. Based on these proportions, you can calculate the amount of decoction you need.
Water with husks must be brought to a boil and left to boil for forty minutes. Then remove from the stove, let the broth stand slightly and strain it to get rid of the husk.
Decorate the eggs with a pattern
Brown eggs are more suitable for this case. Their final color is much more intense and richer than that of white eggs.
Choose the most beautiful, curly and not crumpled leaves and spread them on the egg.
Then wrap the egg with nylon or gauze, press, twist and tie with a thread.
When all the eggs are ready, dip them into the prepared onion broth and cook over low heat for about thirty minutes.
After the eggs are cooked, cool them sharply under cold water, so they will be better cleaned.
To add shine to dyed eggs, after dyeing, wipe them dry and grease with egg white or vegetable oil.
2 option for coloring eggs in onion peel with a pattern in the form of flowers made of paper.
Required Ingredients:
- Chicken eggs
- onion peel
- Threads
- Gauze, or kapron stocking
- Paper
egg coloring process
Take a regular landscape sheet. Draw interesting figures on it. In our case, these are flowers. Carefully cut along the outline. Rinse chicken eggs dry with a paper towel. Soak paper figures in water and stick on the egg, in any order. Wrap in a piece of gauze or nylon stocking. Tie the edges well to secure the paper figure.
Rinse the onion skins. Place in a suitable saucepan. Put in the prepared eggs. Pour in cold water to cover them completely. Send to fire. Bring to a boil. Cook over low heat for about ten minutes. Then remove the pan and leave to cool to room temperature, along with the eggs.
- We choose white eggs, so they will turn out to be a more saturated color.
- We take the eggs out of the refrigerator 3-4 hours before boiling, and to prevent cracks during cooking, add a tablespoon of salt to the water.
- For uniform staining, wash the testicles under running water and lightly wipe the shell with a sponge.
- We give a glossy effect to the painted egg with a cotton pad previously dipped in vegetable oil.
- We collect onion peel in advance. The more peel, the brighter the colors will be.
- If you are worried that the color will not last, then wipe the dyed egg vinegar solution.
Classic dyes
To create a one-color miracle that will shimmer in the sun, we need the following ingredients:
- onion peel - a jar of 1 l;
- water - 1.5 l;
- salt - 25 g;
- eggs - optional.
Cooking
- We fill the husk with water, put it on the stove, turn on the medium heat and wait for it to boil.
- Reduce the flame, cook the husk for about an hour.
- Leave to cool completely on the table.
- Strain the decoction through a sieve or cheesecloth.
- In the same water, add a spoonful of salt and cook chicken eggs for about 10 minutes.
- Pour them in ice water until cold.
- We rub with vinegar solution and vegetable oil.
Marble eggs for Easter: a step-by-step recipe with brilliant green
This simple and original way will decorate the testicles in a matter of minutes, giving the shell a marble look.
For painting you will need:
- chicken eggs - 5 pcs.,
- onion peel - 1 handful,
- brilliant green - 10 ml,
- salt - 1 tbsp,
- bandage 7x14 or gauze.
Cut the onion peel into small pieces.
raw eggs dip into the water. Then lower into the husk.
Put on pieces of bandage or gauze. Gather the edges tightly and secure with a thread.
Boil water with salt in an old saucepan. Drop the eggs. Pour in the greens. Cook from the moment of boiling for 10-15 minutes.
Dip in cold water and cool.
Remove bandage and peel. Rinse and dry.
speckled eggs
To make the specks, we will use rice, but in addition to this cereal, you can take any other. Then your pattern will be more original. For example, if you take peas, then the egg will be the size of a pea. So the ingredients are:
- solution with husk - 1.5 l;
- eggs - 10 pcs.;
- rice (raw) - 1 cup;
- salt - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- pieces of gauze - 10 pcs.;
- water - 0.5 cups.
Cooking
- The first step is to get rid of the husk. We filter the finished solution.
- We moisten the eggs, dip them into a glass with rice (or other cereals), wrap them tightly with a piece of gauze and tie.
- Cook in onion solution, do not forget to add salt.
- Cool, remove cheesecloth, remove rice.
- The speckled eggs are ready.
flower composition
Probably all of you have seen colored eggs, on the shell of which a leaf or flower was displayed. Well, this beauty is not difficult to make. You just need to stock up on flowers (leaves), gauze, threads and take the main ingredients:
- purified husk solution - 1.5 l;
- eggs - 10 pcs.;
- salt - 1 tbsp. l.
Dear friends, on the eve of the upcoming holidays, I want to tell you how to paint eggs in onion skins for Easter. This method is the most reliable: the eggs turn out to be a beautiful brownish color, like velvet, and the protein of the peeled eggs is absolutely white, without any hint of paint. In addition, onion peel is a natural dye, it does not cause concern, like multi-colored paints that are sold in stores. Onion peel can be found in everyone in the house.
In order for it to gather a sufficient amount, it is enough only some time before Easter (3-6 weeks - it depends on the amount of onion consumed by your family), when peeling the onion, do not throw away the husk. Painting eggs with onion skins is a fairly simple but exciting activity, children especially love it and will gladly help you in this matter. And how to paint eggs in onion peel, I'll tell you now.
Ingredients:
- 1 large handful of onion peel (in a free state it takes up a volume of 1.5 liters);
- 7-10 chicken eggs;
- 1 liter of water.
How to paint eggs in onion skins for Easter:
Peeling the onion, remove the dry husk and carefully sort it out. If there are areas with a damaged inner layer, we throw them away. We carefully put the selected dry husks into a plastic bag, and on the eve of Easter we take out everything that we have collected and ... we begin to perform the ritual.
First, put the onion peel in a colander and wash it with running water.
We place the husk in a 2-liter saucepan. Pour 1 liter of cold water and put on fire. Bring to a boil and cook over low heat for 12-15 minutes. Already after 5-6 minutes after the start of boiling, the broth will acquire a beautiful brown color (but in order for the color to be stable, we do not stop cooking.)
Then we filter the broth through a colander into another pan (in which we will boil the eggs). And set aside to cool - if you immediately start painting the eggs and dip them in hot water, they may burst.
While the decoction of onion peel (this is, in fact, paint) cools down, we prepare the eggs.
Wash eggs thoroughly. Rinse off dirt and sticky particles. Carefully remove the color markings with a brush (for eggs bought in a store).
Carefully lower the eggs into the cooled onion peel broth. We make sure that the eggs do not hit each other - otherwise, during cooking, they may burst in this place. The eggs must be completely covered in liquid so that the coloring occurs evenly.
If suddenly some of the eggs protrude from the liquid, add a little cold water or transfer the eggs to another pan, where there would be less empty space between them, they would adjoin each other more tightly - then less liquid will be required to completely cover them.
Bring the pan with the eggs to a boil and cook at a gentle boil for 10 minutes.
Then we take out the eggs, put them in a bowl or pan and fill them with cold water. We hold for 2 minutes under running water, and then we simply stand for 8-10 minutes in cold water. Then we take the eggs out of the water, put them on a plate and stand until they cool completely.
Believers know how important it is to paint eggs for Easter. Recently, people are returning more and more often use folk remedies to decorate Easter eggs. The use of available products provides for the implementation of interesting and attractive patterns. Housewives are often interested in how to paint eggs in onion skins with a pattern. In fact, this procedure is very simple and can be done at home.
The classic way of coloring
The classic way of coloring eggs has not been known for a long time. This option is easy.
Boil water along with onion peel. After the water starts to boil, you need to continue cooking for 10 minutes on low heat.
The eggs are taken out after the water has cooled and dried with paper towels. According to this classic scheme, eggs are dyed using onion peels. Hue and its saturation depends on the duration of the procedure.
The type of onion used determines the color and shade of the eggs. For this reason, the color may be yellow, light or dark green.
Drawing methods
Many housewives are interested in how to paint eggs in onion skins with a pattern. There are also various interesting ways to get a picture.
- Marble effect is considered one of the most attractive. To create it, onion peels of different colors are used. It is recommended to mix orange, red and yellow husks with small pieces of paper. Eggs are laid on the husk. Then everything is wrapped in gauze or a small nylon stocking. The husk and paper will stick better if a wet egg is used. To achieve the desired results, the bags of eggs and onion peel are boiled in a saucepan, where the onion peel will also be, for 30-40 minutes. It is recommended to cook on low heat.
- If desired, you can paint the eggs in a speck. In this case, wet eggs are rolled in dry rice, tightly tied with gauze or a nylon stocking. Then it is boiled in onion broth. As a result, an attractive speckled color will be noted, which will remain after grains of rice.
- The next method involves the use of flowers or green leaves. Flowers or leaves are tightly applied to the egg, and then wrapped with gauze. It is recommended to boil eggs in a decoction of onion skins. The pattern will match the contours of flowers or leaves.
- To achieve a beautiful result, the use of lace is allowed. First, the egg is wrapped in lace fabric, then boiled in onion skins. Lace will leave attractive traces behind.
- Eggs boiled in onion skins can surprise you with an unusual stripe. Such a striped effect will be obtained if the eggshell is first wrapped with threads or rubber bands and only then dipped in onion broth. If desired, you can give a glossy effect using natural products. To obtain a glossy effect, it is recommended to rub the cotton wool with vegetable oil, and then grease the eggshell. Gloss is ideal for a striped effect.
- Zelenka can also be used for coloring. With the help of onion peel and brilliant green, it will be possible to make attractive drawings on eggshells. The drawings will resemble marble stains. Initially, the husk is crushed with scissors or in a blender, coffee grinder. After that, the eggs are moistened with water and rolled in chopped onion peel, the particles of which are securely fixed with gauze or nylon stocking. Now you can boil water and add brilliant green, and its amount will determine the brightness of the shade. Now the eggs are boiled for 10 minutes and cooled. Only after this procedure, you can drain the water and carefully cut the gauze, wash the onion peel from the eggshell. When carrying out such a procedure, it is advisable to wear special gloves and protect yourself from getting brilliant green on your hands.
The above options for coloring eggs with onion peel with beautiful drawings are popular, so they are known to many housewives.
Proper staining is essential. It is recommended to take into account certain points during the procedure.
- Dye eggs are used for room temperature their shells.
- Mandatory is cooking in salted water. In this case, the procedure for subsequent cleaning of onion peels will be simplified.
- After boiling the eggs, it is recommended to cool them in cold water.
- Before the staining procedure, it is recommended to boil the onion peel for about half an hour. As a result of this procedure, a bright shade will be obtained.
- Eggs will get the same tone if they are washed with soap and strained onion skins.
- When dyeing with a pattern, it is advisable to use wet eggs. In this case, leaves and cereals will stick to the eggshell better.
- For drawing a picture, any objects that fit snugly against the eggshell are suitable. It is advisable to make sure that the object used will be resistant to hot water. It is recommended to use rubber products, paper.
- When using rubber bands, it is important to take extra care. It is impossible for the elastic bands to be twisted, as a specific effect will be noted. An exception would be the corresponding idea before starting the procedure.
- To attach leaves or other things, use natural fabric, old nylon stockings, gauze. Artificial fabric is not used because it is vulnerable to high temperatures.
- For beauty, eggs dyed in onion skins are rubbed with natural vegetable oil. However, it is undesirable to store such eggs for a long time, because they deteriorate quickly.
