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Did you know that you can dye eggs brown using onion skins? We’ll show you how to achieve other colours using household ingredients.
Egg battles are part of every good Easter brunch. Red versus yellow, green versus blue ... A little colour makes the game even more fun. And you needn't necessarily buy special dyes to make your eggs beautifully colourful.
What you need:
1.5l water per colour
Two handfuls of onion skins to make brown eggs
A handful of spinach or stinging-nettle leaves to make green eggs
A dash of blueberry juice to make grey eggs
2 tbsp turmeric powder to make yellow eggs
500g red cabbage or beetroot to make blue/purple eggs
Here’s how
Add the ingredients to cold water, bring to the boil and simmer for 30 minutes
In the meantime, wipe the raw eggs with vinegar. This enables them to absorb the dye better.
Place the raw eggs in the boiling dye for 10 minutes.
Remove the eggs from the water with a ladle, rinse and leave to dry.
For a radiant colour, polish the egg with cooking oil to finish.
Zero-waste tip: you can scoop the red cabbage and beetroot out of the water and turn it into a soup or salad.
This hack comes from “Move The Date”
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