Easter Eggs with Appliqué Patterns
Dye your Easter eggs with patterns using a clever technique! This dyeing method is, in my opinion, one of the easiest there is, and the eggs come out remarkably pretty, with patterns and designs!
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Wash the eggs well and hard-boil them. Make a 9% vinegar solution by diluting 70% vinegar essence with water at a ratio of 1 part vinegar to 7 parts water.
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Step 2:
Tip four colors of Easter egg dye into separate cups.
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Step 3:
Pour 100 ml of hot water into each cup and add one tablespoon of the 9% vinegar to each.
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Step 4:
Cut various strips and shapes out of electrical tape however you like and stick them onto the boiled eggs.
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Step 5:
Lower the eggs, one at a time, into the prepared, cooled dye for five minutes each.
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Step 6:
Set the dyed eggs on a paper towel, then peel off the electrical tape.
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Step 7:
Buff each egg to a shine with a cotton pad dipped in vegetable oil and arrange them on a plate.
- In the run-up to Easter, many people start getting ready for the holiday table: baking kulich, making sweet farmer's-cheese paskha, and dyeing eggs. From childhood we're used to seeing brightly colored eggs on the table — blue, yellow, red, marbled, with drawings, patterns, and designs. They're always a pleasure to eat, even if the rest of the year an egg holds no special appeal. In Christianity this tradition is a sacred symbol of the sacrament, one every believer is meant to observe. A 13th-century church legal code stated that an abbot could discipline a monk who didn't eat a colored egg on Easter Sunday, since by refusing he cast doubt on the apostolic traditions and dishonored the Son of God. As an old legend goes, the stone that sealed the tomb of Jesus Christ was shaped like an egg; behind that stone was hidden the Holy One whose life is eternal — just as new life is hidden behind an eggshell. One down-to-earth and interesting explanation for eating and coloring eggs is very simple: during the fast, believers strictly limit what they eat, so to keep the eggs from spoiling they boiled them after the forty-day fast. To tell a boiled egg from a raw one and avoid eating a slightly spoiled one by mistake, they colored the eggs during cooking with various dyes. Another version holds that the Virgin Mary painted eggs to amuse the infant Jesus.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 80 kcal/100g
- Food coloring - 0 kcal/100g
- Acetic essence - 11 kcal/100g
