How to color Easter eggs

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Easter egg is a must for the Easter holiday. On this bright holiday, they occupy the main place on the table, they are eaten first, distributed to the poor, given to friends and family, and also left in the church.

Why is it customary to paint eggs for Easter? Where did this tradition come from?

The biblical tradition says that Mary Magdalene gave the Roman emperor Tiberius an egg, saying the phrase: "Christ is Risen!" The monarch did not believe what was said and said that resurrection from the dead is impossible - it's like a white egg can turn red. And as soon as these words were spoken, the white egg turned bright red. This is how the tradition of dyeing Easter eggs was born, which exists to this day.

Many housewives traditionally paint eggs three days before Easter - on Maundy Thursday. There are a lot of different methods. To do this, use special food colors or use the juices of various vegetables to obtain different colors. For example, to dye Easter eggs light yellow or red-brown, you need to boil them in onion skins. The intensity of the color will depend on the amount of peel. Beetroot juice allows you to color eggs from light pink toburgundy. The longer the time of interaction of eggs with juice, the more intense the shade will be. A decoction of birch leaves is also used for coloring. It dyes eggs yellow or golden.

Easter eggs are called "crayons". And Easter eggs are those that are beautifully painted by hand.

In order to get different patterns on eggs without using their visual abilities, housewives resort to various methods.

You can get a speckled pattern if you roll wet eggs in dry rice and wrap in gauze before cooking in a coloring composition. The rice should stick well to the egg, so the ends of the gauze should be tightly tied with thread.

For a marbling effect on eggs, wrap them in onion skins and tie cotton over the top so that the folds leave imprints on the shell.

Another interesting way to get patterns on eggs is dyeing in patches. To do this, you need to find multi-colored shreds of silk fabric that shed easily. Wrap washed eggs in silk, then in rags, tie with thread, dip in warm water and cook for 10 minutes after boiling.

To get eggs with beautiful patterns, you will need scotch tape. We cut out various figures from it - flowers, hearts, stars. We paste the resulting patterns on boiled and dried eggs and paint in any of the ways. After the eggs have cooled, carefully remove the tape. We got beautiful Easter eggs with patterns! Also, to obtain patterns, you can use beautiful leaves of differentplants. Gather various blades of grass and flowers, press them tightly against the boiled white eggs and securely fasten them with nylon threads. After that, you can start coloring in a way convenient for you.

You can also color the eggs two colors by dipping different halves in turn in different colors of food coloring. The place of transition of colors can be tied with a ribbon.

Many decorate already painted eggs with various stickers. This looks very interesting. There are even special films that, when exposed to hot water, tightly wrap the egg, creating the effect of "pysanka".

We wish you a happy Easter! Delicious cakes and beautiful Easter eggs will help with this. Photos of the described methods are presented in this article.