Easter eggs color differently
I've been coloring my eggs with onion skins for ages. For 30 eggs you need about the shells of 2-3 kilos of brown onions. You can either collect them over the year somewhere, or you can peel off a few onions each time. I usually do that because I keep forgetting to collect the shells throughout the year ...
At any rate, I always put onions and raw (white) eggs alternately in a large pot. It is important that the eggs are completely surrounded by onion skins. Then I pour, if any leftovers of coffee and tea (supposedly intensifies the color a bit), but does not necessarily have to be. In any case, fill up the pot with water and cook for at least 10 minutes. I let the eggs to get a more intense color, simmer for about 30 minutes in the simmer or even longer with the stove off.
By the way: If you want to have a nice pattern when dyeing Easter eggs, you can easily do this with packing nets (of potatoes, onions, lemons, etc.). Carefully wrap the (raw) egg as tightly as possible in the net and tie it with a string. Then boil the eggs in onion peel (or egg color). The longer you let them in, the more intense the color. Then remove the eggs and peel them out of the nets. Finished! When the eggs are chilled, they can be greased with margarine to make them shine.
