Easter is the lightest spring holiday. A holiday that gives hope for the best, inspiring. Easter, like a timid spring sun, comes into our lives. Indispensable attributes of this holiday are, of course, cakes and colored eggs. What colors and patterns you will not find on Easter!
Instructions
Step 1
The simplest and most common option for coloring eggs is with onion peels.
Step 2
It is necessary to prepare a decoction of onion peel, let it brew. Then the washed eggs are placed in this broth and boiled in it for 10 minutes after boiling.
Step 3
If cooled eggs are lubricated with vegetable oil, they will acquire an extraordinary shine. Eggs colored in onion skins vary in color from reddish yellow to dark brown. You can stick strips of tape in the form of letters XB on the eggs before painting. After staining, the strips must be removed.
Step 4
To make eggs yellow or golden in color, you need to take a decoction of dry birch leaves, insist it, then boil the washed eggs in such a decoction for 10 minutes after boiling.
Step 5
You can make interesting stains on the eggs. Before placing them in the broth, you only need to wrap them with multi-colored threads.
Step 6
Try to make eggs "speckled". For this, wet washed eggs are rolled in dry rice, immediately wrapped in clean gauze, the ends of the gauze are tied tightly. Next, the eggs are boiled in the usual way in some kind of broth.
Step 7
Eggs with grass prints of various shapes are interesting. In advance in the summer, grassy leaves of an interesting shape are harvested, which, when coloring the eggs, are applied to clean washed eggs. Then the egg is tightly tied with gauze and placed in the broth for cooking.
Step 8
It is customary to give painted eggs to relatives and friends as a symbol of resurrection and new life.
