Not each hostess will undertake baking of Easter cakes and preparation of a paskha. And here even children are capable to paint eggs. Don't miss an opportunity to let in a holiday the house – surely give a couple of hours to this fascinating occupation. Prepare dyes, using natural products and the checked national recipes. You pleasantly are surprised to a variety of shades and intensity of coloring.
It is required to you
- - eggs with a white shell;
- - beet;
- - red cabbage;
- - ground coffee;
- - onions peel;
- - grape juice;
- - vinegar;
- - vegetable oil.
Instruction
1. Buy eggs with a white shell. The it has rougher structure, the it will be better to absorb paint, so, color will turn out more saturated. Very smooth, glossy eggs are painted less intensively, but the shade turns out more homogeneous.
2. Boil eggs. You watch that they didn't burst. Prepare several containers with broths for coloring. You will need deep pans and banks – that color turned out uniform, eggs have to be completely shipped in the painting solution.
3. To receive saturated reddish-brown color, collect a peel from 8-10 bulbs, fill in it with two glasses of water and bring to the boil. In hot solution lower eggs by means of a spoon and you cook from 5 to 15 minutes. The longer eggs are in solution, the color will turn out more intensively.
4. Grate beet, lay out it in a pan and fill in with water. Bring to the boil and boil about 10 minutes. Remove solution from fire, cool, add a tablespoon of vinegar and place in an egg pan for 1-2 hours. After such processing the shell receives a bright pinkish-red shade.
5. Fill in 8 tablespoons of ground coffee with two glasses of water. Bring mix to the boil. Lower in solution of egg and you cook about 10 minutes. Remove a pan from fire. Eggs have to infuse in solution about half an hour more. A result – pleasant saturated-brown color of a shell.
6. Grape juice will paint eggs in a beautiful light lilac shade. Add a tablespoon of vinegar to a glass of juice and wet in this mix of egg at several o'clock or on all night long. Also long the shell is painted also in blue color. To receive such tone, small cut a red cabbage, fill in it with three glasses of boiled water, boil 5 minutes, cool a little and pour in 2 tablespoons of vinegar. Wet eggs in solution.
7. When the shell gets a desirable shade, take out eggs from the painting solution and spread out them for drying on plates or a paper towel. Dry eggs can add additional gloss. Polish them with a rag or the cotton pad which is slightly moistened with vegetable oil, and lay out on the plates decorated with lace paper edging. The main easter treat is ready.