1. We choose white eggs, so they will turn out to be a more saturated color.
2. We take the eggs out of the refrigerator 3-4 hours before boiling, and to prevent cracks during cooking, add a tablespoon of salt to the water.
3. For uniform staining, wash the testicles under running water and lightly wipe the shell with a sponge.
4. We give a glossy effect to the painted egg with a cotton pad previously dipped in vegetable oil.
5. We collect onion peel in advance. The more peel, the brighter the colors will be.
6. If you are worried that the color will not last, then wipe the dyed egg with a vinegar solution.

Classic dyes

To create a one-color miracle that will shimmer in the sun, we need the following ingredients:

• onion peel - a jar of 1 l;
• water - 1.5 l;
• salt - 25 g;
• eggs - optional.

Cooking

1. We fill the husk with water, put it on the stove, turn on the medium heat and wait for it to boil.
2. Reduce the flame, cook the husk for about an hour.
3. Leave to cool completely on the table.
4. Strain the decoction through a sieve or cheesecloth.
5. In the same water, add a spoonful of salt and cook chicken eggs for about 10 minutes.
6. Pour them in ice water until cold.
7. We rub with vinegar solution and vegetable oil.

Marble eggs for Easter: a step-by-step recipe with brilliant green

This simple and original way will decorate the testicles in a matter of minutes, giving the shell a marble look.

For painting you will need:

• chicken eggs - 5 pcs.,
• onion peel - 1 handful,
• brilliant green - 10 ml,
• salt - 1 tbsp,
• bandage 7x14 or gauze.

Cut the onion peel into small pieces.

Dip raw eggs in water. Then lower into the husk.

Put on pieces of bandage or gauze. Gather the edges tightly and secure with a thread.

Boil water with salt in an old saucepan. Drop the eggs. Pour in the greens. Cook from the moment of boiling for 10-15 minutes.

Dip in cold water and cool.

Remove bandage and peel. Rinse and dry.

speckled eggs

To make the specks, we will use rice, but in addition to this cereal, you can take any other. Then your pattern will be more original. For example, if you take peas, then the egg will be the size of a pea. So the ingredients are:

• solution with husk - 1.5 l;
• eggs - 10 pcs.;
• rice (raw) - 1 cup;
• salt - 1 tbsp. spoon;
• pieces of gauze - 10 pcs.;
• water - 0.5 cups.

Cooking

1. The first step is to get rid of the husk. We filter the finished solution.
2. We moisten the eggs, dip them into a glass with rice (or other cereals), wrap them tightly with a piece of gauze and tie.
3. Cook in onion solution, do not forget to add salt.
4. Cool, remove cheesecloth, remove rice.
5. The speckled eggs are ready.

flower composition

Probably all of you have seen colored eggs, on the shell of which a leaf or flower was displayed. Well, this beauty is not difficult to make. You just need to stock up on flowers (leaves), gauze, threads and take the main ingredients:

• purified husk solution - 1.5 l;
• eggs - 10 pcs.;
• salt - 1 tbsp. l.

The most popular and beloved by all way of coloring Easter eggs is onion peel. This method has a huge number of advantages, this is both naturalness and a variety of color spectrum, from yellow to dark brown.

But you always want to try some new recipe or add a "zest" to an already proven recipe.
As for the leaves. If you live in the southern regions, then the first young greens have probably already appeared. It is better to use plants with carved leaves.

But even the snow has not melted yet, so I use elementary leaves of parsley and dill.

First of all, prepare a decoction of onion peel.
Rinse the onion peel, put in a saucepan, cover with water and boil. Depending on what color you want to get the eggs. I cooked for 30 minutes, but you can cook for an hour.

Remove the eggs from the refrigerator, wash and leave to reach room temperature. It is recommended to lubricate the eggs with table vinegar, so they supposedly absorb the dye better (I did not lubricate).
Choose the most interesting leaves, moisten with water, attach to the egg (back side), straighten.

Gently pull on the stocking, trying so that the leaf does not curl up and move out. Fasten with regular thread.

Do this with all testicles. Then place the eggs in a saucepan with onion peel and cook for 20 minutes. Then remove, cool in cold water. Remove capron and wash the testicles with water. You can lubricate them with vegetable oil for shine.

Very soon one of the biggest Christian holidays will come - Easter. On the eve of this holiday, many housewives are puzzled by the question of how to dye and decorate eggs at home without using harmful chemical dyes.

For many centuries, our ancestors successfully dyed eggs for Easter using ordinary onion skins.

Starting from Shrovetide, housewives usually did not throw away the onion peel, but dried it a little and put it in a linen bag. Until Easter, it just accumulated the amount necessary for painting eggs.

When painting eggs with onion peel, you can independently adjust their color from light yellow to rich red-brown. If you want to get a darker color of eggs, then you need to boil a large amount of onion peel in water for at least thirty minutes, and then, just immerse the boiled eggs in the resulting broth.

To make the eggs lighter, you just need to take a smaller amount of husk for painting and cook it for three to five minutes.

Also, the final color of eggs when painted with husks depends on the variety of onions. Each variety of husk has its own color - purple, golden, rich orange, red, light yellow.

Here are a few ways to beautifully and originally paint eggs with onion skins to get different effects.

Eggs must be removed from the refrigerator before painting so that they warm up to room temperature and do not burst during cooking. Then, put the onion peel in a saucepan, pour boiling water over it and let it brew for two to three hours. Next, put the eggs in the onion infusion and put the pan on the fire. After boiling, we remove the fire to the minimum mark and cook the eggs for ten minutes. After the water has cooled, the eggs must be removed from the infusion with a spoon and wiped with a paper towel.

Dyed eggs "speckled" or variegated eggs.

Each egg must first be dipped in water, and then rolled in dry semolina, rice or corn grits. Next, the egg must be tightly wrapped with a piece of gauze. To make the cereal fit better to the egg, the ends of the gauze are tightly tied with a thread. Further, the eggs are boiled in onion infusion, as in the first method.

Paints with a pattern.

In order to get pretty patterns when stained with onion peel, you need to attach small leaves, flowers, blades of grass to the eggs (you can dry or freshly plucked). Further, as in the second method, wrap the eggs with gauze and boil in onion peel.

You can decorate eggs with a pattern or pattern in another way. If you didn’t have leaves and flowers at hand, you can simply tie a piece of lace around the egg before cooking.

To obtain “marble” stains on a painted egg, it is necessary to wrap each egg in onion peel before cooking. Then, together with the husk, wrap the egg in a white cotton napkin, gauze or in a piece of nylon stocking.

For a more pronounced marble effect, it is better to use onion skins of different colors (from different varieties of onions).

The second option on how to make marble eggs is slightly different from the first, but also very simple. Multi-colored (red, yellow, orange) peel should be chopped into small pieces with your hands or scissors and a few small pieces of paper should be added to the peel. The egg must first be moistened with water so that the mixture of paper and husks sticks to it better. Then, we tie the eggs rolled in a mixture of husks and pieces of paper, gauze, pieces of stocking or linen. Further, water, onion husks are added to the pan and eggs wrapped in husks are laid. Boil the eggs for thirty to forty minutes over low heat.

Video from user 365 TIPS on how to make marbled eggs.

When stained with onion peel, you can get original striped eggs. To do this, before painting, each egg must be tightly wrapped with an elastic band or threads that can be applied to the egg both symmetrically and not symmetrically. How to do it is only a matter of your inspiration and imagination.

Then, dip them in an infusion of onion peel and cook for half an hour.

To make Easter eggs dyed in the traditional way in a useful natural dye even more beautiful, shiny and look more impressive on the festive table, after cooling, you need to gently rub each egg with a cotton pad dipped in vegetable oil.

All the unusual ways of painting eggs for Easter in onion skins that I know, I told here. I hope that the information will be useful to you when preparing for the holiday. If you paint eggs in onion skins in a different way - write. And I, and readers, I think it will be interesting.

How to dye eggs with onions

On Easter, housewives traditionally paint eggs. How exactly and with what they will paint the eggs, each housewife chooses for herself. Now you can buy various chemical dyes and thermal films that help you quickly and easily color eggs.

But increasingly, housewives are looking for ways that are environmentally friendly. To do this, they use natural materials. And the most common way is to paint eggs in onion skins. The fact that you will not spend a penny from the family budget in order to purchase coloring materials is also very pleasant. The material is onion peel, which is in every home, because we use onions to cook our dishes almost every day.

Consider this moment: after painting in onion skins, the eggs will be dull. To give them a beautiful shine, wipe them with a small amount of vegetable oil. Also remember that the eggs must be taken out of the refrigerator before painting so that they are at room temperature before dipping into the hot broth. Otherwise, the eggs may crack.

For guests and loved ones. We paint eggs and prepare crafts and gifts for children and adults. And how many different options for preparing all this splendor surrounds us. Head spin. Let's put some order in this variety. Today I want to streamline the information, as well as tell you about how to color eggs with onion peel. This is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to decorate eggs for the holidays. But at the same time, it does not become the most banal and uninteresting. But let's talk about everything in order.

Simple dyeing of eggs with onion peel

The easiest way is to paint the eggs with onion peel without additional drawings and ornaments. An even rich red-brown hue makes the eggs elegant and beautiful. In some ways, it looks like a rich mahogany, and if you rub the eggs with vegetable oil, it also shines like an expensive treasure covered with varnish.

Onion peel is a natural natural product, so there is not even a shadow of a doubt that eggs dyed in this way will not bring any harm to either adults or children.

Onion peel for coloring can be either from ordinary white onions or from red ones. Collect the husks from several bulbs of any variety and set aside in advance. To do this, you can get a special container in the kitchen, and every time you cook something with onions, put the husk in it.

From my own experience, I can say that not so many bulbs are required. 5-6 pieces are enough to prepare a small pot of broth.

Another big plus of this coloring is that eggs can be dyed both white and brown. We all know the situation of shopping for good white eggs before Easter. Brown ones are fine too.

The final color of an already dyed egg will, of course, be different. White testicles turn out more red, like the onion itself in the husk, and brown ones are redder and darker. You can buy both types of eggs and arrange a beautiful variety.

Painting steps:

1. Remove the eggs from the refrigerator, fill them with water at room temperature and let stand for half an hour. The water will soak up all the grime and stamps that are applied to many eggs in the factory. What is not dissolved, wipe off with a sponge. You can use baking soda.

2. Pour the onion peel into the old pan. The pan is very likely to stain, so choose dishes that you don't feel sorry for or that nothing sticks to.

3. Fill the husk with water and put on the stove to boil. After boiling, boil the husk for about 20 minutes. It will become darker and its color will become more intense every minute. Then turn off the stove and leave the husk to cool naturally.

4. When the decoction of the husk has cooled down, it's time to start coloring the eggs in it. There are two possible ways. First: fish out all the husks from the broth or strain and leave only the liquid in which to lay the eggs later. Then the color of the eggs will be uniform. Second: put the eggs directly into the husk and cook with it together. In this case, small streaks may remain, a slight marbling from itself.

5. Place the eggs in the decoction of onion skins and turn on the stove again. Pour 1-2 teaspoons of salt into the broth so that the eggs do not leak out if they do burst. Eggs in the broth should boil and cook for 10-15 minutes. Then turn off the stove again.

6. Let the eggs in the broth lie down until it cools down. After that, they can be taken out. Lay the eggs out on paper towels or paper towels and pat dry.

7. Painted eggs will be matte, and if you want an elegant shine, then take a cotton ball or a piece of gauze and rub the eggs with vegetable oil.

This is how you can paint eggs with onion peel without any patterns and drawings, but if you want to add delicacy or drawings, then before the cooking stage, you should carry out small manipulations.

Pattern on eggs from leaves, flowers and twigs

The whole painting process will take place in exactly the same way as I described above. Only now, before laying the eggs in the finished broth, we must prepare them.

For patterns, you will need leaves and twigs, you can take small flowers. Not everyone has flowers blooming outside the window at this time of the year, and there are not always herbs. But the usual garden greens can be found in any store. Dill, parsley, cilantro, rosemary, tarragon - fragrant herbs with leaves of different shapes and sizes are perfect. All you need is a few twigs and leaves. You can dial a little different ones so that the whole testicles are with an individual unique pattern.

You will also need a thin capron or mesh to attach the leaves to the egg. It is clear that they themselves will not be able to hold on in conditions of water boiling in a saucepan. A cut off piece of elastic tights is perfect. And also threads or an elastic band to tie the nylon tightly to the egg.

Attach a leaf to the egg and wrap it with nylon. Tie the nylon tightly so that it fits snugly around the egg and holds the leaf in place. In this form, put the egg in a decoction of onion peel. In the same way, wrap the rest of the eggs, put them in a saucepan and boil for 10-15 minutes in the broth.

After that, cool the eggs and remove the capron along with the leaves. In the place where they were glued, their light imprint will remain.

It is important to note that it is worth dyeing white eggs in this way.

How to dye eggs with onion skins and rice

The method of such coloring is very similar to the previous one. For it, you will need a thin mesh fabric, for example, from nylon socks, and raw rice.

Moisten a clean, dry egg with water, then put in a bowl of rice and roll in it on all sides so that the rice sticks. Now wrap the egg with rice in a net, tie it tightly and send it to a saucepan with broth to boil until it is completely colored. In order for the egg to color, it must boil in the broth for at least 10 minutes. Then cool the egg and remove the net with rice from it. To make the egg shine beautifully, it is smeared with vegetable oil in a very thin layer.

A beautiful way to dye eggs with onion skins and threads (rubber bands)

Eggs with stripes and patterns can be made using threads or thin rubber bands. Before dyeing, wind a thick thread around the egg in different directions. You can wind the thread in a spiral or two threads perpendicular to each other. Get beautiful patterns.

You can also take thin rubber bands and wrap them around the egg. Just don't be too tight so that the pressure cracks the egg, it's still raw and brittle before boiling.