Painted eggs for Easter is a beautiful tradition that many people honor. Even in Soviet times, when, instead of Easter, citizens went to communist subbotnik, people took with them colored eggs and cakes to eat after working in nature. Eggs were usually painted with onion peel, the whole variety consisted in the intensity of color - from deep brown to golden yellow. Nature has given us rich material to learn how to use. If you combine old and modern technologies, add natural materials, then the result will be original Easter eggs.
Stock up on food gel paints, they are harmless and have a rich color. Take a knitted mesh, which is used for lining in sportswear, collect more onion peel and a bunch of fresh parsley, but not curly. Everything else is a matter of technique and your patience, the skill will come necessarily.
- Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Ingredients for Easter colored eggs decorated with parsley leaves
- 10 chicken eggs;
- 1 m knitted mesh;
- 2 g of green food gel dye;
- 50 g onion peel;
- a bunch of fresh parsley;
- tablespoon of vinegar;
- elastic bands or strings;
- vegetable oil or olive.
Method of cooking dyed eggs for Easter, decorated with parsley leaves
To begin with, we wash the eggs and cook. The rough side of the sponge will remove not only the dirt, but also the ink imprint, on which the grade is usually indicated, if you shop at the store. The lucky owners of domestic chickens will not have to flush anything but dirt.
We wash washed eggs in knitted mesh. The grid is tightened with a thread or a regular rubber band.
Pour cold water into a stainless steel pot, add a few drops of green gel dye and a tablespoon of vinegar. Put the eggs, put on the stove. After boiling, keep on a quiet fire for about 10 minutes, then leave in the paint for another 5-6 minutes.
Remove the mesh, rinse with cold water. The eggshell will turn green, and mesh knitted mesh will be printed on it.
We take a bunch of parsley, cut off the most beautiful leaves of small size and regular shape. In a bowl, pour 200 ml of boiling water, put the leaves in boiling water for 30 seconds, so that they soften.
We glue the leaves one by one on the shell, by means of a usual needle or a thin stick we level the leaves on the surface. Cotton swab expel water from under the leaf, so that it fits snugly to the shell.
Once the egg is in place, pack it in a net, we knit it with a rubber band tightly so that the parsley does not fall off.
In a saucepan, boil the onion peel for about 30 minutes, cool the infusion.
Put the eggs in the pan with the infusion of husk, put on the stove, bring to a boil, leave for 30 minutes, can be longer.
We take from the infusion, put in cold water. By the way, the grid can be dried, it can serve for a long time.
Shine can be given to the shell with olive or other vegetable oil - rub the shell with oil, remove excess with a soft cloth.
Painted eggs for Easter, decorated with parsley leaves, are ready!
