This spring, having seen enough of the photos easter eggs colored with natural dyes, I chose ten different products to see how it works. After experimenting with everything from oak bark to red wine, I figured out which ingredients give great colors and which I won't use anymore. You will find them in the article along with the recipes with which I dyed the eggs.

The problem with internet sources is that you can never be 100% sure of following someone else's advice. This is great for describing what happens when dyeing eggs with natural dyes. The spinach leaves promised a pleasant green color, but it turned out to be a dirty gray, but so gloomy that I didn't even want to take pictures. We conclude that spinach is good on the table, but there is no dye from it. A similar situation happened with beets and paprika, but more on that later.

Our kitchen is full of natural egg colors. These are common vegetables such as red cabbage, beets or carrots, and bulk vegetables such as coffee and tea, and various spices. They have a nice color scheme, and I like that some of the shades are pastel, harmonize perfectly and turn boring white eggs into a delicate Easter decor.

I remember, while I was living with my parents, already at the beginning of winter, a special bag or box for onion husks appeared in a drawer under the sink. Before Easter, the container with the husk was removed, as was the huge saucepan, in which several dozen eggs were pushed for about an hour. Now this method seems boring to me, and the color is not quite mine. Therefore, I decided to look for shades that I would like to see on my Easter table.

Today I will tell you how to color eggs with turmeric, paprika, red cabbage, coffee, hibiscus tea, wine, nettle leaves, coffee, oak bark and beets. Children will especially enjoy experimenting with colors. Allow yourself and them to do a little magic on the Easter decor.

Usefulness for coloring eggs for Easter

Below you will find 10 wisdoms that help you understand how egg coloring with natural dyes works.

1. Before coloring, wash the eggs in water or rub them with vinegar to clean and degrease... This will make the paint smoother.
2. Before boiling, remove the eggs from the refrigerator and give them warm up to room temperature so they don't burst.
3. If you paint ready-made eggs, immediately after cooking fill them cold water ... Heat shock makes cleaning easier, and chilled shells absorb pigment better.
4. When coloring eggs with natural dyes, be sure to add a few tablespoons of vinegar, which will ensure that the paint is fixed to the shell.
5. If you want an uneven color effect, leave the ingredients (grated beets, chopped cabbage) in the saucepan along with the eggs.
6. Use a white pencil to draw patterns on the shell before dyeing. These can be flowers, geometric shapes or inscriptions. The shaded part will remain light. You can achieve the same effect by wrapping a string around the egg.
7. The longer the eggs remain in the dye, the the color will be more saturated.
8. To remove sediment from natural egg colorant, strain it through cheesecloth.
9. Usually, darker color it turns out if eggs are boiled in dye. Lighter shades gives soaking in the finished composition.
10. As a final touch, gently dry the eggs after staining with a cloth or paper towel and rub with sunflower oil.

Below are the results of my many hours of experiments. Natural dyes may give unexpected results, so please don't be surprised if your color differs from mine.

How to dye eggs for Easter with turmeric

Turmeric gives the white eggshell a pleasant sunny yellow hue. To get it, boil water, add turmeric powder to it at the rate of 1 tablespoon per glass of water and a little vinegar. Bring to a boil, dip the eggs in the dye and cook for about 30 minutes.

Turmeric does not dissolve completely, and small grains remain in the water, so the eggs must be stirred to evenly distribute the paint.

I liked this method - a good color, it is given quite quickly and easily.

Red cabbage dye

Depending on how rich the shade you want to get, you will need one or two heads of cabbage. Red cabbage you need to chop, pour 3 cups of water and add 6 tablespoons of vinegar. Cover with a lid and leave in the refrigerator overnight to let the cabbage juice.

The next day, pour the liquid into a separate container and place the boiled eggs there. We leave for another day for staining. Despite the fact that red cabbage produces a rich pink juice, the eggs are sky blue.

It's not the fastest or cheapest method, but the color is one of my favorites.

How to color eggs with paprika

To color the eggs paprika, pour a glass of water into a saucepan, add 4 tablespoons of seasoning and cook for 30 minutes. After that, we put the eggs in the broth and leave overnight.

They promised a brick shade. It is difficult for me to define this color. He's some kind of super light orange.

Beet staining

To paint eggs with beets, I rubbed 2 things, poured 3 glasses of water, added 3 tablespoons of vinegar and set to cook with eggs for 40 minutes. As a result, I got some kind of nasty Brown color... If you also find this color a nasty brown, don't do it.

I think I should have just soaked the finished eggs overnight in beetroot juice and vinegar. Would it be pink?

How to color eggs for Easter using coffee

Everything is simple here. You need to brew very strong instant coffee : 2-3 tablespoons of powder per 200 grams of boiling water. Add a little vinegar, lower the eggs and cook for about 5 minutes. White eggs take on a chocolate hue. Not bad, but not my favorite color.

Coloring eggs for Easter with hibiscus tea

Also as a natural dye for eggs, you can use hibiscus tea... First, boil the tea leaves for 10-15 minutes so that the broth becomes dark red, and then boil the eggs in it. When you take them out of the broth, magic happens, and they gradually turn from pink to purple.

I had high hopes for hibiscus, as a source of pale pink, but no. Although, lilac is also not bad. I like the streaks that leave the petals.

Oak bark for coloring eggs

I think this is such a brutal way to paint eggs. A friend asks you: What did you paint eggs with for Easter? And you are all so airy and soaring: Oak bark!

So, to get a brown tint, add 2 tablespoons of bark to a glass of water and boil the eggs in this mixture for about 20 minutes. Oak bark is sold in a pharmacy and is inexpensive. And if it remains, it can be poured into flowers as a drainage.

The most interesting thing is that the bark of the oak gave the color of ordinary brown eggs. And if there is no difference, then this method can be skipped.

How to color eggs with blueberries

I used frozen blueberries from the store. You must first prepare a decoction from the berries. Pour 50 grams of blueberries with 2 cups of water, add a few tablespoons of vinegar, bring to a boil and leave on fire for another 5-10 minutes. Pour boiled eggs with the resulting juice for a period of several minutes to several hours. Depends on what shade you want to get.

I kept the egg in blueberry juice for about 30 minutes and got such a bluish-black shade. My husband liked this color, we leave it.

Staining with nettles

Pour 2 cups of water into a saucepan, add 6-8 tablespoons of dried nettle and cook the eggs in this composition for about 30 minutes.

It turned out to be a strange, dirty color, almost like when stained with spinach. If you bring it up to the light, the shade of a dry swamp is captured. They promised green, probably for this you still need fresh nettle leaves.

Boil eggs in wine

We always have wine after the holidays, and since we buy it mainly for guests and don't drink it ourselves, I decided to use the leftover merlot to paint the eggs. To do this, I just boiled eggs in wine. You can dilute it with water.

The result is a rather rich burgundy color.

In general, I liked the process of dyeing eggs with natural dyes, and what happened. But still, I do not lose hope of achieving a pleasant pink or delicate green shade.

Tell me, have you tried something similar? How to paint eggs for Easter?

We suggest you not to buy dyes for Easter eggs, but to dye them in the old way from improvised products that are in your kitchen. It is very interesting, safe and can be taught to children. Do it together first. So, for the preparation of all dyes, except for silver, the procedure is the same. First, prepare the base, then add the desired product to it.

How to make natural egg dyes

Take a small saucepan, pour 1 liter of water into it and add 2 tbsp. tablespoons of white wine vinegar. Put on fire and bring to a boil. Place in boiling water the food you want to paint, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes on a low boil. Let the dye cool, strain through a sieve before dipping eggs into it. If you want to paint the eggs in different colors, prepare several solutions.

Colorful food coloring for eggs for Easter

For yellow: Add 3 tbsp to the base. tablespoons of turmeric in boiling vinegar solution. Be careful! Turmeric can stain the skin a lot, so you should wear rubber gloves when handling this dye.

For pink: Add 4 cups of chopped raw beets. Don't worry if your eggs turn out to be more brown at first than pink at first. When they dry, the color will take on the pleasant pastel shade you see in the picture.

For blue: Add 3 cups chopped red or purple cabbage... If you hold the egg in this solution for 30 minutes, it will turn blue, but if you want a deeper shade (like ours), leave the Easter eggs in the dye overnight in the refrigerator.

For orange: Add 4 cups of onion skins. For a brighter orange hue, refrigerate the eggs in the dye overnight.

Special way for silver color: Combine 2 cups water and 2 cups frozen blueberries in a bowl. Let the mixture warm to room temperature, mash the berries, let stand a little longer and strain the solution. Place the Easter eggs in the dye and keep them in the refrigerator overnight.

Everyone knows that fruits, vegetables and herbs get their vibrant color from the pigments they contain. So why use chemical dyes, if nature has given us so many gifts?

Today, on the eve of the brightest holiday of spring, the editors "So simple!" prepared for you, dear reader, several excellent ways, as possible paint easter eggs using natural dyes. Absolutely harmless, and the colors are bright and rich!

From early childhood I remember how my mother and grandmother dyed eggs with onion skins... Using this simple method, it was possible to obtain a range of shades from pale orange to deep brown.

But the fact that Easter eggs with the help of natural dyes can be given green, red, yellow and even blue - I learned relatively recently. But this is truly a find!

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Natural dyes for eggs

1. A bright sunny yellow color can be obtained with turmeric decoction. To do this, add 2-3 tablespoons of turmeric to a small container of hot water. To make the color more saturated, the water must be boiled. In the resulting broth, you can either boil the eggs (you get a more saturated color), or just soak the boiled ones.

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2. Chamomile gives a delicate yellow color, it can be boiled and filtered, or eggs can be boiled with chamomile tea bags.

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3. To paint eggs bright red, you need a decoction of bark or cherry twigs.

   Boil the bark or cherry twigs, let it brew for several hours (it is better to boil it and leave it overnight), be sure to strain it, and then boil the eggs in this infusion. If the broth of the cherry bark is made weak, the eggs will accordingly turn pink.

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4. Red cabbage is what will help dye your eggs amazing pale blue.

   For coloring, you need to chop the head of cabbage, put it in a saucepan and fill it with water (about 0.5 liters). Bring the broth to a boil, then simmer for 45 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, let the cabbage cool completely, and then remove it from the water.

   Pour 4 tablespoons of vinegar into the resulting broth, put the hard-boiled eggs (with white shells) into the pan. Soak the eggs in the broth for about 3 hours.

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5. The beets will color the eggshell red with a purple tint. And with a decrease in the concentration and number of beet pieces, it is easy to get a rich pink.

   

6. You can use spinach for a green hue. The spinach needs to be finely chopped (frozen is also good), pour over with water to cover, and then boil the eggs in this liquid for half an hour.

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7. Grape juice will give your easter eggs delicate lavender shade.

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Before dyeing eggs, they must be washed in a soda solution for degreasing. And do not forget the obligatory rule - add vinegar to natural paints. It is he who eats away the shell, making the surface more rough and susceptible to dyes.

We also remind you that it is better to paint eggs.

We will certainly make three or four eggs traditionally brown-red - in memory of the shed Blood of Christ. But cook in onion skins two dozen, you see, boring! Eggs are advised to be dyed yellow with saffron, and you need a lot of it. In green - a huge amount of spinach. The rest of the ideas also require an abnormal investment of money or time. Just read it: a glass of coffee, 2 kg of peel of oranges, a glass of raw beet juice ... Purchased dyes solve the problem for one or two. But...

Food colors for eggs: E, E, E and more E

"Easter set", "Krashenka», "Magic shine», "Ukrasa"- the names are innumerable, the price is cheap, it takes almost no time. Another manufacturer will indicate on the packaging chemical composition including various “E” s. And most write simply: food coloring. Sometimes sugar or salt is added to it. But don't let your guard down! Thus, you can reduce the concentration of the paint, but make it edible - no. Let's take a closer look at the "E-shkami", which are usually used in Easter paints.

E100(curcumin) and E140(chlorophyll) - additives that give red and turquoise color, respectively, - are harmless and in the full sense of the word food. But this is just a spoonful of honey in a barrel of ointment.

Different shades of red give E122, E124 and E128... E122 (azorubin or carmoisine) is an azo dye used in Russia, but banned in some countries. It is best for people who are sensitive to aspirin to avoid it. E124 in our Food Industry cannot be used. As well as E128, recognized by the European Commission as hazardous to health due to the content of carcinogenic aniline in it.

Yellow dye E102- tartrazine - has a tarnished reputation both in Russia and in other countries.

Yellow, green and blue gives E132- synthetic indigo carmine, provoking suffocation in asthmatics, and in allergy sufferers - serious exacerbations up to Quincke's edema. The same feats are capable of E133, "Blue shiny FCF".

"Green" supplement E142, banned in Canada, Norway and Japan, can cause severe allergies through direct contact.

For the sake of fairness, it must be said that the Internet mentions "cold" organic dyes, seemingly harmless. But no one had heard of them in shops and church shops.

The main troubles that synthetic food colorings:

Increased excitability, children's hyperactivity;

Impaired concentration, problems at school;

Sudden mood swings;

Dysbacteriosis, allergies.

Reasonable chemical protection

So, should you dye your eggs with synthetic dyes or not? It seems that all the prohibitions relate specifically to food - and the shell is not food! Well, the egg burst, well, the protein under the crack turned blue or green - so let's throw it away. And the rest can be eaten ... However any synthetic vermin can easily penetrate through the shell and films inside the egg... Even if the protein remains white, this does not guarantee the absence of any benzoate, sulfite or nitrite in it. It turns out that it is not safe to eat such eggs. Throw it away? Why not, we take out the old tree in the trash. But a blessed egg can be thrown away by an atheist. If, as a result of the traditional Easter exchange, it gets to a believer, he will eat the shrine along with all the "stuffing", and it will remain on your conscience.

For ourselves, we draw the following conclusion: you can reasonably combine natural dyes, purchased harmless and even harmful synthetic ones, but the latter are only for beauty! And you need to try to track the fate of each unreliable egg. Do not give to child. Do not give allergy sufferers. And, perhaps, not to consecrate in the company of "onion" and saffron fellows.

DIY dyes

Draw a pattern on a boiled egg with a wax pencil and boil (soak) in a dye solution according to the instructions. The pattern will remain white.

Dip a wet egg in a mixture of crushed onion (golden and red) and garlic husks. Tie tightly in a piece of gauze or broken tights and cook in blue (green) dye. The shell will become marbled.

You can roll the egg in rice and tie it with gauze or wrap it with clerical rubber (you don't need to tie it anymore). After cooking in the dye, white spots and stripes will remain under the grains and gums.

Whisk until thick, raw egg white, put in a cone from a quarter of a milk bag, tie tightly and cut off the tip. Draw patterns like cream on a cake: you can paint with white on a painted shell, or you can tint the protein and apply it to a white egg - it's also beautiful.

Factory dyes for Easter eggs give great results, but they are not harmless.

Natural food colors are completely safe for health - roots, berries, spices and other products that can be found in almost every kitchen.

Natural dyes make it possible to dye eggs for Easter environmentally and no less interesting.

The juice squeezed from dark varieties gives the eggshell pale lilac color... The first step is to find bunches of dark (black) grapes for sale. Use a screw juicer to squeeze the juice out of the berries. You can also organize a homemade press from the tools at hand. The easiest option is to grind the grapes in a meat grinder, and then squeeze the juice from the resulting gruel through several layers of gauze. In this case, all the cake will remain in the gauze.

You should have about 1-2 glasses of natural grape juice (depending on how much dye you plan to make). Dilute the juice with boiling water (in a ratio of 2 to 1). Dip into the resulting liquid boiled eggs so that they are completely covered with the dye. After a few hours, the dyes will be ready!

Did you know? During the two-year anti-alcohol campaign organized in the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1987, a huge number of vineyards (about 180 thousand hectares) were cut down.

Onion peel

The most popular raw material for coloring eggs for Easter is considered to be husk from. This method has been known since ancient times. Onion waste is not just an affordable dye, but also a powerful antibacterial and antimicrobial agent. If you use yellow onion hulls, the shade selection will vary. light orange to reddish brown... If you use the husk of a red onion, the color will be dark chocolate.
Transfer the husk of the onion (a pressed liter jar) to a saucepan, add 2 liters of boiling water. Let the water boil again and cook the husk for another 30 minutes or an hour. In order to shorten the cooking time, you can pre-soak the peel in cool water for several hours. So, we have a decoction of the husk - it must be cooled, then drained, salt well and pour in a couple of tablespoons of vinegar.
Salt will help the shell not to crack during cooking, and vinegar will make its color more persistent and rich. Return the broth to the stove, placing enough raw chicken eggs in it so that the liquid covers them completely (about 10 pieces). Let it boil and boil for another 10 minutes. Transfer the already cooled ready-made classic dyes to a paper towel.

The dyeing technology can be slightly changed: when the eggs are boiled, remove them from the broth, and cool the dye itself. To make the color brighter, return the dyes to the cooled broth, keeping them there for several hours.

Important! The longer you boil or keep the eggs in onion peel broth or any other infusion, the more intense the shade will turn out. In addition, the brightness of the color is directly related to the amount of husk (or other raw materials): the more there is, the more beautiful and brighter the result. After boiling eggs in hot dye, it is advisable to immediately immerse them in ice water - due to the sharp temperature drop, the shell will easily move away from the protein. And if you want the shell to acquire a shine, after drying, wipe the eggs with a napkin slightly soaked in sunflower oil.

Video: 7 ways to color eggs in onion skins

Thanks to cranberries, eggs acquire a beautiful pale pink shade... Cranberries can be used both fresh and thawed. The berries need to be kneaded with a kitchen device for crushing or beat with a mixer. Using cheesecloth or a sieve, squeeze the juice out of the resulting gruel.

The output should be approximately 2 cups of natural cranberry juice. In order to save money, you can dilute the berry juice with water (in a 2 to 1 ratio). Submerge as many eggs in the dye as the liquid can cover. Boil the future dyes for 20 minutes. Remove pan from heat and leave overnight. In the morning, remove the finished dyes from the liquid and dry them.

Whole bean coffee

Natural coffee will color the shell in various chocolate shades(from light brown to rich chocolate). The intensity of the color depends on how much natural coffee powder you use.
Grind coffee beans in a coffee grinder. The output should be 1 cup of powder. Pour freshly ground product with cold water (1 liter) and put the pan on fire. After boiling coffee, immerse raw eggs (about 6 pieces) in it. Simmer for 10 minutes, then remove the pan from heat. Leave the dyes in the coffee for a couple of hours to make the color richer. This painting method can hardly be called economical, but the coffee aroma during the cooking process will give you pleasant emotions.

The infusion will give a white eggshell light blue (light blue) color... Chop finely red cabbage(1 large or 2 medium) and pour 2 liters of boiling water. Boil the head for about an hour. Set aside the cabbage, strain the broth and cool. Pour 8 tbsp into the resulting dye. l. vinegar and place the pre-boiled eggs (10 pieces) there. From time to time, take out the dyes, evaluating the result of the painting. If you want a bright blue color, soak the eggs in the broth overnight.

Another great natural color. Thanks to this spice, the shell turns out to be beautiful golden yellow color.

Important! The only drawback of this method of staining is difficult to remove stains. Therefore, in the process of painting, try to be careful.

Take 4 tablespoons of turmeric, pour one liter of water. Immerse raw eggs in this composition, let the liquid boil, then boil for about 10 minutes more. You can also place already boiled eggs in hot water with the same amount of yellow spice and soak in the dye for several hours.

Nettle

In a decoction of nettle, the shell will acquire a pale green tint. In this case, it is advisable to use eggs with only white shells.

Dried pharmacy nettle is laid in a saucepan along with eggs (one pack is enough for 3-4 liters of water). Even with prolonged boiling (15-20 minutes), the color is still not bright, but at the exit a greenish color is still achieved. You can also dip boiled eggs into the cooled broth and refrigerate overnight.

When used, you get pink dyes.

To do this, in a small saucepan, mix 3 cups of berries (fresh or frozen) with 2 cups of water. Put on fire. After boiling, cook for another 5 minutes. Pour the liquid without berries into a deep bowl and add 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice... Dip the eggs into the resulting composition for several hours.

Krashenki are ready for Easter!

V light yellow tone the shell will be colored with carrots.

Grind the raw root vegetable with a fine grater. Pour cold water over the grated root vegetable (2 medium carrots in 1 liter of water) and put on fire. Let the water boil, then boil for about 30 more minutes. Strain and cool the liquid, then add some vinegar to it.

Immerse pre-boiled eggs in natural dye and keep them there for several hours, or better, the whole night. Transfer the dyes to paper towels in the morning to dry.
Leftover boiled root vegetables can then be used to cook various dishes, salads or pies.

Did you know? The root vegetable of carrots is almost 90% water. You can see this when you beat the vegetable in a blender or pass it through a juicer.

Paprika

When painting in a decoction of paprika, the color of Easter eggs will be intermediate between red and orange(like a red Sicilian orange, only very pale). These difficulties are due to the capriciousness of the orange paint.
In a small saucepan, mix 1 quart of water with 4 tbsp. l. paprika. Let the liquid boil, then cook for another 5 minutes. Pour the liquid into a deep bowl and add 1 large spoonful of vinegar. Place the pre-cooked into the resulting composition chicken eggs(about 6 pieces). In a few hours, the dyes will be ready.

Thanks to the beets, the shell will be colored in various shades of pink, red or burgundy... Immerse 2 large peeled root vegetables in boiling water (2 liters). After a quarter of an hour, dip the pre-cooked eggs into the same liquid (about 10 pieces; adjust the amount yourself - the dye should completely cover the eggs). To prevent future dyes from cracking from temperature changes, first keep them in a warm room or warm them up in warm water. After 8-10 minutes, remove all the beets from the pot and turn off the hotplate. Let the eggs steep in the broth for a couple of hours.
You can pour vinegar into the broth (2-3 tablespoons per 1 liter of liquid), then the color will take better. From time to time, take out the dyes and evaluate the shade. The remaining beets can be boiled and used for food.

Did you know? The heaviest beet in the world was grown in Somerset (county in England) in 2001. The root crop weighed 23.4 kilograms.

Blueberry broth or juice will give the white eggshell a pleasant purple tint... To prepare the broth, put about 4 cups of blueberries (frozen or fresh) in a small saucepan, cover with water (2 cups). Let it boil, then cook for another 5 minutes. Strain the liquid from the berries. Add 1 tbsp to the resulting broth. l. lemon juice, then immerse the eggs in there for a few hours or overnight. The liquid must completely cover the future dyes.

Eggs can be colored with blueberries and without boiling the berries. To do this, mash fresh blueberries with a crush or beat with a mixer. Using cheesecloth or a sieve, squeeze the juice out of the resulting gruel. If you are using frozen berries, cover the bottom of a deep dish with gauze, pour blueberries on top and let them defrost.

In the same bowl, squeeze all the juice from the berries. The output should be a little less than a glass. natural juice... In a glass of dye, soak the boiled eggs in turn (about 30 minutes each). Adjust the time the eggs are in the dye on your own to get the shade you need in terms of saturation.

Black tea

Will color the shell in brown tones (from golden to chocolate)... Brew strong black tea (about 8 teaspoons of dry tea leaves per 1 liter of boiling water). Infuse the finished tea for about 30 minutes, then strain the liquid. Pour the dye into a deep bowl and add 1 tbsp. l. vinegar.
Place already boiled eggs (6-7 pieces) in the resulting liquid and leave overnight. Adjust the strength of the tea and the dyeing time to achieve an intense color.

Did you know?The idea of ​​pouring boiling water over the leaves of plants arose out of absolute coincidence. According to ancient Chinese mythology, in 2737 BC, the legendary emperor of China Shen-nong sat under a wild bush (Chinese evergreen camellia) while a servant brought him hot water. Several leaves from the bush fell into cups of boiling water. Having drunk a drinkShen-nong was surprised by its pleasant aroma and taste. From that day on, he instructed the employees to prepare exclusively such a drink for him. Today, many centuries later, more than 2 million cups of tea are consumed in the world in just one second.

Black currant

Using black currant you can achieve a variety of shades - from pale pink to lilac... Black currants can be taken both fresh and thawed. The berries need to be mashed with a crush or beat with a mixer. Using cheesecloth or a sieve, squeeze the juice out of the gruel. Use enough berries to make a little less than a glass of natural juice. Immerse the pre-cooked eggs one at a time in the glass with the dye, allowing each egg to stand for about 30 minutes. On discretion adjust the time the eggs are in the dye (taking into account how bright the color you want).
You can also use a simpler painting technique: simply rub the already boiled eggs with mashed black currant berries (fresh or thawed). Remove the remnants of the gruel with a napkin and leave the paint to dry.

Colors eggs in light green... A large bunch of fresh herbs is enough for 2 liters of water. Wash the greens and dry well. Prepare 10 raw eggs... Wrap each one individually with a spinach leaf so that there are no gaps. Secure the sheet with an elastic band or thick thread.
Fold the blanks in a saucepan, fill with cold water. Turn on the gas under the pan, let the water boil, then cook for another 12 minutes. Remove the leaves from the eggs, then dip the dyes in cool water. When the broth has completely cooled down, immerse the dyes in it again and keep them there for several hours - the color will become more intense.

Important! It is better not to use frozen spinach: instead of green, you risk getting an unattractive beige tone.

Video: coloring Easter eggs with natural dyes

As you can see, natural dyes are simple and harmless. Regardless of which option you choose, the recommendations that you have read today will help you create spectacular classic dyes for your Easter set.