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I spent the morning playing in the kitchen with unsatisfactory results...and worse yet soft shells on the eggs because I decided to play with PH like I would with fabric and added a little baking soda once and then a little vinegar...beautiful foam and an amazing change in color for the tumeric...I am happy with the color of the bits of linen and cotton fabric I included in the pot.
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Description: onion skins after about an hour simmer")
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Description: one tablespoon turmeric to a quart rain water")
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Description: cloth after adding baking soda to turmeric dye bath")
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Description: yellow eggs/redish cloth (turmeric) and reddish eggs/orangish cloth (onion skins)")
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R Scott wrote:They look beautiful. Although probably not bright enough for some kids.
We just bought araucana chickens so we have easter eggs all year.
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I didn't get around to trying again this year.....I've had a hard time finding 'homegrown' white eggs and lately our egg person has only really dark brown ones. Your links and pictures have inspired me though so maybe I'll be ready for next year."We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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Danielle Diver wrote:we JUST got done with ours! This year we tried :
Matcha Powder (some old stuff laying around) didnt work, not shown
Elderberry (dried, crushed, and boiled into an infusion before eggs added) worked slightly well, but not totally great
Tumeric, the yellowy ones
and some old Logwood (Haematoxylum campechianum) dye from 15 years ago found in the garage, that one was a HIT!
we did the plant wrap deco thing. it was fun, a bit of work, but the plants that worked the best for us were dandilion and (wild) strawberry leaves
picture! my two year old will have kinda fun finding them, totally fun peeling them, and will probably throw a toddler fit when we eat them!! happy hunting!
edit: these are made with brown eggs
edit2: we polished with pork lard , REALLY makes them shine!
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John Weiland wrote:This has probably come up before as an edible item, but thought it would go good in this thread as well. If you like and make pickled eggs with beet juice, the dye penetrates the shell (below).
One recipe here: http://www.thisamericanbite.com/pickled-eggs/
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Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
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Pearl Sutton wrote:
I see the world differently. Starting with boiling my blown or boiled eggs in vinegar to make them take the dye, then I'm going to try shredding beets, and packing the shreds around an egg, tie it well, let it sit for several hours. I think that would stain an egg way better than beet water (and waste less beets!) Plus have texture to it. Going to mix chopped onion with turmeric, and pack it too. Probably, knowing me, do some eggs that have glops of beets, and glops of turmeric/onion mix, to end up with multicolored textured weird eggs. Green would be chopped spinach or chlorella tablets, also packed on and sit... Haven't got any purple cabbage... Oh wait! Might have some in the freezer... hmm..
I'll post pics, so y'all know if it works or not :) Probably will post pics too late for people to look at them this year and decide, but next year, and the idea is here if someone wants to try it as I do this year, we can compare techniques!
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Joy Oasis wrote:
Pearl Sutton wrote:
I see the world differently. Starting with boiling my blown or boiled eggs in vinegar to make them take the dye, then I'm going to try shredding beets, and packing the shreds around an egg, tie it well, let it sit for several hours. I think that would stain an egg way better than beet water (and waste less beets!) Plus have texture to it. Going to mix chopped onion with turmeric, and pack it too. Probably, knowing me, do some eggs that have glops of beets, and glops of turmeric/onion mix, to end up with multicolored textured weird eggs. Green would be chopped spinach or chlorella tablets, also packed on and sit... Haven't got any purple cabbage... Oh wait! Might have some in the freezer... hmm..
I'll post pics, so y'all know if it works or not :) Probably will post pics too late for people to look at them this year and decide, but next year, and the idea is here if someone wants to try it as I do this year, we can compare techniques!
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You will boil the eggs in pure undiluted vinegar? Are you going to use cooked beet peels or raw? Can't wait to see the photos!
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Pearl Sutton wrote:
Joy Oasis wrote:
Pearl Sutton wrote:
I see the world differently. Starting with boiling my blown or boiled eggs in vinegar to make them take the dye, then I'm going to try shredding beets, and packing the shreds around an egg, tie it well, let it sit for several hours. I think that would stain an egg way better than beet water (and waste less beets!) Plus have texture to it. Going to mix chopped onion with turmeric, and pack it too. Probably, knowing me, do some eggs that have glops of beets, and glops of turmeric/onion mix, to end up with multicolored textured weird eggs. Green would be chopped spinach or chlorella tablets, also packed on and sit... Haven't got any purple cabbage... Oh wait! Might have some in the freezer... hmm..
I'll post pics, so y'all know if it works or not :) Probably will post pics too late for people to look at them this year and decide, but next year, and the idea is here if someone wants to try it as I do this year, we can compare techniques!
:D
You will boil the eggs in pure undiluted vinegar? Are you going to use cooked beet peels or raw? Can't wait to see the photos!
It got complicated, they are still soaking in their dye messes. Blown eggs float!! I soaked them in about 1 cup white vinegar to about 4 cups water. I needed to get the oil off them, they were oiled for long term storage.
I used raw beet, and it may not be working well, can't tell without opening them up. The beet was a half of one, that was cut over a week ago and has been hanging out in the fridge,it was kind of dry. I grated it up. Turmeric looks like it's amok.
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And blown out empty eggs float even better! :DLyda Eagle wrote:All eggs will float when they start to get old.
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Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
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Pearl Sutton wrote:
And blown out empty eggs float even better! :DLyda Eagle wrote:All eggs will float when they start to get old.
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Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
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Pearl Sutton wrote:Well, the turmeric did lovely. The second dye on the eggs didn't do well at all, I wonder if the turmeric (which is slightly oily) kept the rest from being able to dye. The beet red just rinsed right off.
The ones I painted amused me much more. Some were done with glue and bits of flower catalogs, or violets and clover from the yard. The painted ones are gaudy, more my style. The weird swoopy ones were from a few years ago, they never go finished because they were coming out so bad. This is the rescue of them, a lot got overpainted.
These are all posed nicely for a class picture! :D
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Jocelyn Campbell wrote:Here's another blogger who documented doing veg dyed eggs and the one difference I noted is that she recommends pre-soaking the eggs in vinegar/salt water first. I wonder how much that might help!
https://www.thewondersmith.com/blog/2018/3/4/botanical-eggs-and-a-spring-equinox-ritual-for-new-growth?rq=eggs
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Jocelyn Campbell wrote:Judith did you ever figure out how to do this? I used to use vegetable dyes with my kids at Easter. And, lo, Erica Strauss posted about it here: http://www.nwedible.com/sunprint-naturally-dye-easter-eggs/.
Beautiful; I have seen the how to's online where people use silk ties for dyeing eggs; my question is this: are the dyes used on silk plant based or not? I would LIKE to experiment with silk ties and eggs thing; but we would also be eating those boiled eggs, so I want to know if its even safe to do this; anyone know?
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Kim Huse wrote:
I have seen the how to's online where people use silk ties for dyeing eggs; my question is this: are the dyes used on silk plant based or not? I would LIKE to experiment with silk ties and eggs thing; but we would also be eating those boiled eggs, so I want to know if its even safe to do this; anyone know?
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