Traditionally painted eggs prepared for Easter table And gave birth to relatives and friends during the week before the holiday. Painted - eggs painted in one color, without patterns or painting.
Today you can find many chemical dyes of bright shades for eggs, but the most beautiful, useful and even delicious those painted, which are painted with the help of natural dyes that our great-grandmothers used. Natural dyes for eggs cannot give such a bright shade as chemical, but they are absolutely harmless and capable of painting eggs into very tender and beautiful colors.
How to paint eggs with natural dyes
We offer ordinary I. useful adviceThanks to which the color of the shell is uniform and more saturated.
- After extracting already colored eggs from the container, where they were cooked, the eggs can not be rubbed with an effort. They should be rinsed, hooked under the jet of warm water, and gently dry the napkin or a paper towel.
- So that the eggs are not cracking when staining, they should not be cold (from the refrigerator), they should hold them a few hours at room temperature and flushed out in warm water.
- It is better to boil the eggs in a thick-walled saucepan - it will save the eggs from cracking. Eggs should slowly bring to a boil and then cook with minimal boiling.
- After dyeing, you can wipe the eggs sunflower oil, then they will acquire a stunning shine.
- If after staining to put eggs in the same brave all night in the refrigerator, then the shell color will be brighter.
Natural safe dyes - It is fruits and vegetables, herbs and leaves with a pigment that can paint easter eggs. Supporters of natural dyeing use for these purposes: onion husks, beets, red cabbage, spinach, red pepper, turmeric, safflow, decoction of rosehip, green tea, coffee, blueberry berries.
You can paint in the process of cooking, adding ingredients into water (water should completely cover the eggs), and you can also paint boiled eggs, Then you first need to make a coloring solution (boil with painting vegetables, fruits or spice with water), and after - painting an egg in it (the minimum time color is 30 minutes, but you can hold all night).
Yellow
Yellow eggs turns out if you boil them in water with adding low husk, carrots, cumin seeds or chamomile. A more intense color is obtained on yellow or brown eggs. Chamomile gives a gentle yellow color, it is possible to boil and strain or cook eggs along with the chamomile bags pharmacy.
- Example 1: Turmeric Cook 15 minutes in water and immerse eggs.
- Example 2: For the preparation of the dye, you need to take 1 liter of water, 3 tablespoons of turmeric powder and grated red carrots, cook 30 minutes.
Brown color
- Brown-birch leaves, black tea, coffee. It is necessary to brew strong coffee or tea and boil eggs in it.
- Red-brick - leeks.
Example: 3 lithurates should be taken 4 cups of onion husks and boil over an hour. The greater the onion husk, the richer is the dye. We lay eggs and drunk in the resulting dye. To obtain a purple shade, you need to do everything the same with the peel of the red bow.
Pink-red
Pink and lilac shades - blueberries, lingonberries, cranberries (frozen or juice), raspberry, currant, cherry, red cabbage. In the juice you can soak already boiled eggs.
Green color
Green - dried spinach, parsley, nettle, ivy, decoction of blueberries
- Example 1: For 2-3 eggs and 0.5 liters of water, take approximately the hassle of dried mother-and-stepmother, ferns or carrot tops.
- Example 2: Boil eggs with truncated cluster (per liter of water 3 st l grinding nettle).
- Example 3: To obtain a green shade of eggs, you can use fresh bilberry. For 1l scalar blueberries - 2-3 Full teaspoons of turmeric powder. Kurkumum, in order to avoid the appearance of lumps, pre-trim with water in a small dishes and only then put in the decoction of blueberries.
- Example 4: Spinach destroy the finely (frozen is also suitable), pour with water to covered. Cook 30 minutes and let it cool.
Painted eggs are a traditional Easter gift, a symbol of the spring holiday of the Renaissance. Would you like to paint eggs into attractive colors using branded and natural tools?
Then you can take advantage of the choice of one of the three most popular options - painting with coffee, black tea or carcade. In performed, they are simple, do not require ingenious devices and professional skills.
Each of the above decoring methods is environmentally friendly to health even small children.
If you want to paint eggs into a bright and clean color, then choose only white. They are painted and faster, and easier. For a product with a brown shell, more rich and dark dyes are required, and bright - they look at them fad.
Eggs, both raw and ready, can be stored for quite a long time in the refrigerator, but what they are fresh, the longer they do not spoil after cooking. The shelf life of boiled eggs in the refrigerator is 20 days. But it is not necessary, of course, bring to extremes, boiled it is recommended to store no more than 7 days, during which they retain their taste and nutritious qualities.
Before painting eggs, they can be checked for freshness, dropping into a water container. But with the condition that you all immediately use them, since after they are not subject to storage. Take a spacious dish and pour more water. Fresh - will be devastated to the bottom, old - they will pop up, and those that were stored for long - will be somewhere in the middle in the thickness of the water.
Painting eggs are best clean, so dyes are evenly distributed over the shell. Detergents (soda, lemon, economic soap) will degrease its surface, it is necessary to wash in warm water.
At the same time, they should be taken out in advance from the refrigerator to heat up to room temperature, otherwise when cooking the shell can crack. Cooking preferably in a slightly salted water, so if the shell cracks, then the protein will not fall out.
Painting black tea
Everything is extremely simple. 3 black tea tablespoons pour steep boiling water. After 20 minutes, when the infusion becomes strong enough, lower the pre-boiled eggs in it for several hours (for more saturated color overnight). Award for your efforts will be a pleasant brown eye.
"Coffee" way
How to paint an egg with coffee and give it a gentle brown color? You will need only steep boiling water and several tea spoons of soluble coffee.
So, with regard to the proportion, it requires a 1 teaspoon of soluble coffee for painting one egg. Pass the desired number of selected "dye" and pour into a small amount of steep boiling water. The resulting solution is brought to a boil and boil on slow heat for 5-10 minutes. Then, in the container for painting, place boiled eggs, pour hot coffee and leave for 30-50 minutes.
After the specified time, they will acquire a beautiful "tan" - a gentle pastel shade of brown.
Painting Carcade
Decided to paint eggs using a carcade? The method is really excellent, however, when it is used, it should be noted that the carcade is a natural dye, but the eggs immersed in such a decoction partially destroyed the shell.
To obtain a gentle blue color as ordinary tea. Put the infusion into a deep tank and lower the eggs in it for 2-3 minutes. Then get drunk and send again in infusion. In this part of the process, it should be a little tinker, checking each minute of their shade. When they get wicked color for you, remove completely. Why so much attention?
Many years of experience painting this way shows that if the eggs are kept in the infusion too long and without a break, they can purchase a gray color, which is unlikely to decorate a festive table.
Note that only white eggs should be used to stain in tea carcade.
And if a bluish color is not very pleased with your eye? Then try adding several crystals in infusion citric acid or a couple of drops lemon juice. The result is stunning shades of red!
In order for a natural dye to absorb better in the shell, the eggs before painting need to be thoroughly wash and wipe the cutlery vinegar.
If you want to paint everything perfectly and evenly, use the product without roughness, and the hands in the process should always be clean, without cream.
For the resistance of the color, as well as the impressions of the delightful gloss already painted eggs should be wiped with a small amount of sunflower oil.
It is noteworthy that with the help of natural dyes, even hair can be painted. We advise you to read :.
photo: Depositphotos.com/julietart, Rashevskiy
Environmentally friendly today in trend, and this is not just following fashion, but also care for your health. Many have already tried to paint eggs on Easter with natural dyes: tea or coffee, especially since different species Raw materials are more interesting unusual shades. Synthetic dye time is in the past, and despite the fact that they are written "Food", there are many "e", and some of them are not at all so safe.
Eggs painted by natural dyes, absolutely harmless even for young children: they can be given to play with painted eggs, there are them, and not be afraid that a piece of chemical dye goes into the protein. Fully environmentally friendly, and with proper painting and choosing ingredients - also very beautiful!
How to prepare eggs to paint tea or coffee
You are not so easy to handle natural dyes, and if you do the same as with synthetic food, the effect will be unstable and weak. Take advantage of these tips from environmental staining professionals so that the result is pleased with the first time.
- For coloring with natural dyes, use only white eggs: on them the color will be clean, beautiful and quite bright. On brown - dyes lowered weakly, and sometimes it is generally unnoticed that they made painting.
- Sweeping the eggs, rinse well in warm water using soda to remove the slightest bloom and pollution, and wipe with vinegar to degrease and improve the grip of the paint with the surface. Paint will fall uniformly.
- If you plan to get a rich shade, you can not do the eggs for 1-2 minutes. Then you will boil them in a dye on a slow fire, so they will cook well. However, if future paints are ready, nothing terrible, a couple of extra mines of heating will not hurt them.
How to paint eggs with black and green tea, mate, carcade and coffee
For the color of eggs, various natural components are suitable. There are many types of tea alone, and unique colors are obtained from different varieties. Try all the options available to you, and you will make sure that you can get a sufficiently large number of shades.
In all natural dyes, it is desirable to add 1-2 tablespoons of vinegar to secure the color and make it brighter.
How much to keep eggs in tea or coffee?
- To get pastel tones, it is enough 15-20 minutes in hot dye (more precisely indicated in specific recipes).
- In order for the color to be saturated, put an egg into a container with a dye, and warm 2-3 minutes on slow heat, watching color change.
- There are recipes in which eggs are desirable to leave in the infusion at night, in this case you will get the maximum color brightness.
If you leave the eggs for the night in the infusion with the leaves, most likely you will get an "marble" effect.
Mobile black coffee eggs
Usually used instant coffee, in granules or powder, and in this case - the cheaper, the better, since it will have enough many dyes, stabilizers and other chemistry, which will give eggs a bright coffee color.
The proportions are 1 teaspoon with a slide on every egg. Paint 5 eggs - take 5 spoons of coffee.
Fill coffee with water in a saucepan, boil on medium heat for about a minute.
Or fold the eggs to the same container, and boil another 3-5 minutes for a delicate coffee tint.
Either pour the painsh with the solution and leave for 3-5 hours for bright chocolate color.
Pray the eggs with black tea
Black tea is good because it gives very bright color, and so you can paint even brown from the nature of the eggs, and they will look fresh and interesting. However, and on white it looks good and saturated.
The proportions are 2-4 tablespoons by 0.5 - 1 liter of hot water.
Make a strong tea, lower the future crawls in about 15 minutes. If the shade is weak, you can brew eggs in the leaves, or leave overnight.
An interesting idea: if you cook very strong tea (chifir) in the proportion of 8 teaspoons on 0.5 liters of boiling water, and pour eggs to them for an hour, it turns out very rich color. If we paint white eggs, then you can dig thin pictures or inscriptions, they will be white and contrasting on a dark background.
Prayer eggs carcade
This is an interesting creative experiment. The fact is that, depending on the concentration, time of staining, a specific brand and many other factors, the shade may turn out from gently lilac to gray-blue and even saturated blue. So you can only paint white eggs.
Proportions: 1-2 tablespoons by 0.5 liters of water. For bright blue - 100 grams of carcade on a liter of water.
Brew the carcade and give it in size 5 minutes.
Lower the egg in infusion for 2-3 minutes.
Remove with a spoon, wipe and look at the color.
If necessary, you need to repeat.
Do not leave eggs in a carcade for a long time, since there is a risk of gray, which looks not very festive.
If the carcade gives blue shades, and you want reddish - add in the infusion a couple of lemon juice drops or a couple of citric acid grains.
Prayes Mate Eggs
Mate tea gives a very original gentle-pistachio color, and if you longer hold the eggs, the shade will be quite green.
The proportions are 50 grams of tea per liter of water.
Brew Mate, let's break for about 15 minutes.
Bring to a boil again.
Lower the eggs in infusion and leave for 1 hour.
Pray the eggs with green tea
Green tea is rarely used, since it does not give a saturated shade, however, and you can experiment with it, having received yellow or gentle green.
The proportions are 2 tablespoons of large-grade tea with 0.5 liters of water.
Make tea, cover, let's breed 5 minutes.
Put eggs into a solution for 15-20 minutes, get and check.
If the color is weak, immerse another 15-20 minutes, negotiate in the nasty or leave it overnight in it.
How to get the desired color?
- Pink - carcade, most likely - with a pair of lemon juice drops.
- Blue or blue - carcade, depending on the concentration.
- Pale yellow and lemon - green tea.
- Light green and pistachio - green tea and mate.
- Chocolate and coffee - soluble coffee.
- Dark brown, red-brown - black tea.
It is more convenient to lower the eggs in the infusion in high containers, by 0.5 - 1 liter, in this case 4-6 eggs are usually placed there. But it is possible to experiment with glasses, in this case, brew leaves in a glass, and put 1-2 eggs there, - this process is usually longer.
Wipe the dried eggs sunflower or olive oilAnd their color will be bright and beautiful. Pulk the napkin or a cotton disk into the oil, and apply a small amount on the egg, as if polishing it. If the dye combats and pecks - it means that it is not enough good enough, but usually there is no problem.
Conclusions:
- Natural eco-friendly dyes are much more useful and safer than synthetic food. For children it is better to choose natural paints.
- Can be painted with soluble coffee, black and green tea, Mate, carcade.
- Immerse Eggs into the dye for 5-15 minutes, then deliver and control the shade. For the most saturated color, you can leave the eggs in the dye overnight, or peck in the paint 2-3 minutes.
- If the egg is crane and the dye falls into the protein - it is absolutely safe.
This spring, after watching the photo of Easter eggs, painted by natural dyes, I chose ten different products to check how it works. Having experimentated with everything - from the bark of oak to the red wine, I found out which ingredients are excellent colors, and what I will not use more. You will find them in the article together with the recipes for which I stained the eggs.
The problem of Internet sources is that it will never be confident by 100%, following someone to the Council. This is great for describing what is obtained when staining eggs with natural dyes. The leaves of the spinach promised a pleasant green color, and turned out to be dirty-gray, and so gloomy, that even photograph did not want to photograph. We conclude that the spinach is good on the table, but the dye from it is no. A similar situation happened to beet and paprika, but a little later.
In our kitchen, full of natural dyes for eggs. This is I. ordinary vegetableslike a red cabbage, beets or carrots, and bulk, such as coffee and tea, and various spices. They have a nice color gamut, and I like that some shades are obtained pastel, perfectly harmonize and turn boring white eggs into a gentle Easter decor.
I remember while I lived with my parents, already at the beginning of winter, a special package or a box for onion husk appeared in the drawer under the sink. Before Easter, the tank with husks was removed, like a huge pan, in which several dozen eggs were pushed about an hour. Now this method seems to me boring, and the color is not entirely mine. Therefore, I decided to search for shades that I would like to see on my Easter table.
Today I will tell you how to paint eggs turmeric, paprika, blocked cabbage, coffee, tea carcade, wine, nettle leaves, coffee, oak bark and beet. Especially like to experiment with the colors of children. Allow yourself and bring them a little over the Easter decor.
Utility for staining eggs for Easter
Below you will find 10 wisdoms that help to understand how the eggs of eggs are working with natural dyes.
- Before staining wash the eggs in water or wipe their vinegar to clear and defker. So the paint will fall evenly.
- Before cooking, get eggs from the refrigerator and give them warm up to room temperatureso that they do not burst.
- If you paint ready-made eggs, immediately after cooking fill them cold water . The temperature shock contributes to easier cleaning, and the chilled shell is better absorbing the pigment.
- When staining eggs with natural dyes, be sure to add several tablespoons of vinegarwhich will ensure the fastening of paint on the shell.
- If you want uneven staining effect, leave the ingredients (grated beets, sliced \u200b\u200bcabbage) in a saucepan with eggs.
- Use a white pencil to draw patterns On the shell before staining. It can be flowers, geometric figures or inscription. The painted part will remain light. The same effect can be achieved if the egg is wrapped.
- The longer the eggs remain in the dye, more saturated color.
- To remove from natural dye for eggs sediment, straighten it through gauze.
- Usually, dark color It turns out if the eggs cook in the dye. Lighter shades Gives soaking in the finished composition.
- As a final stroke, carefully dry eggs after staining with a cloth or paper napkin and sattail with sunflower oil.
Below - the results of my many hours experiments. Natural dyes can give an unexpected result, so please do not be surprised if your color will differ from mine.
How to paint eggs on Easter turmeric
Turmeric It gives a white egg shell a pleasant sunny yellow shade. To get it, boil the water, add to it turmeric powder at the rate of 1 tablespoon on a glass of water and a bit of vinegar. Bring to a boil, lower the eggs into the dye and cook for about 30 minutes.
Turmeric does not completely dissolve, and small grains remain in water, so the eggs need to be stirred for a uniform paint distribution.
I liked this method - a good color, is given pretty quickly and easily.
Cabbage Dye
Depending on how saturated shade you want to get, you will need one or two Kochan. Red cabbage You need to cut, pour 3 water glasses and add 6 spoons of vinegar. Cover the lid and leave it in the refrigerator for the night so that the cabbage let the juice.
The next day we drain the fluid into a separate container and put the cooked eggs there. We leave another day for staining. Despite the fact that the red cabbage gives saturated pink juice, the eggs are heavenly blue.
The method is not the fastest and not the cheapest, but the color is one of my favorites.
How to paint eggs using paprika
To paint eggs paprika, Pour a glass of water into the pan, add 4 tablespoons of seasoning and cook for 30 minutes. After that, we put in the decoction of the egg and leave overnight.
Promised a brick shade. It is difficult for me to determine this color. He is some kind of super-light orange.
Coloring beet
In order to paint eggs with beets, I finished 2 things, flooded with 3 glasses of water, added 3 tablespoons of vinegar and put boiled together with eggs for 40 minutes. As a result, I received some kind of nasty brown color. If you also find this color nasty-brown, do not do it.
I think it was necessary to just soak ready-made eggs at night in beet-fledged juice With vinegar. Maybe it would be pink?
How to paint eggs to Easter with coffee
Everything is simple here. Need to brew very strong instant coffee: 2-3 tablespoons of powder for 200 grams of boiling water. Add some vinegar, lower eggs and cook about 5 minutes. White eggs acquire a chocolate shade. Not bad, but not my favorite color.
Staining eggs for Easter tea carcade
As a natural dye for eggs, you can use hibiscus tea. First, 10-15 minutes will boil the leafy of tea so that the decoction acquires a dark red color, and then boil eggs in it. When you get them out of the brave, magic will happen, and they will gradually turn into lilac.
I had high hopes on the carcade, as the source of gentle pink color, but not. Although, the lilac is also not bad. I like divorces that leave the petals.
Oak bark for staining eggs
It seems to me that this is such a brutal way to paint eggs. You ask your girlfriend: What eggs are you painted on Easter? And you all such an air and soaring: the bark of oak!
So, in order to get a brown tint, add 2 tablespoons of the cortex on a glass of water and cook eggs in this mixture about 20 minutes. The oak bark is sold at the 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 oak gave the color of ordinary brown eggs. And if there is no difference, then this method can be skipped.
How to paint eggs blueberries
I used frozen blueberries from the store. From berries you need to prepare a decoction first. We pour 50 grams of blueberries with 2 glasses of water, add a few spoons of vinegar, bring to a boil and leave another 5-10 minutes on fire. The juice obtained fuel boiled eggs for a while from a few minutes to several hours. Depends on what shade you want to get.
I kept the egg in the blueberry juice of 30 minutes and got such a worm-black shade. I liked this color to my husband, we leave.
Staining nettle
We pour into a saucepan of 2 glasses of water, add 6-8 spoons of dried nettles and cook eggs in this composition of about 30 minutes.
It turned out a strange dirty color, almost like when staining with spinach. If you bring to the light, the shade of dry swamps is captured. Promised green, probably for this still need fresh spectal leaves.
Cook eggs in wine
We always have wine after the holidays, and since we buy it mostly for guests, and do not drink it, I decided to use the remnants of Merlot to paint eggs. For this, I just welded eggs in fault. You can dilute it with water.
It turned out quite rich burgundy color.
In general, I liked the process of staining eggs with natural dyes, and what happened. But still, I do not lose hope to achieve a pleasant pink or gentle green shade.
Tell me, did you try something like that? What are the eggs for Easter?
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Before Easter in stores, many chemical dyes of bright shades for eggs appear, but the most beautiful, useful and delicious testicles painted with the help of natural dyes used by our great-grandmothers
So, as natural dyes for eggs, you can use Any vegetables, fruits, berries and even greens and seasonings with a pigment that can paint easter eggs. The greatest popularity is: Red cabbage, beets, coffee, spinach and nettle leaves, turmeric, paprika, green tea, carcade, blueberry and cranberry berries.
Two ways to paint eggs:
1. For the preparation of the dye, vegetables and fruits need to cut and cook for 30 minutes (the proportions are arbitrary and depend on what shade you like more). Then cook eggs in the coloring solution for 10 minutes (water should completely cover eggs). For a more saturated color, you can enlarge cooking time.
2. But you can paint the boiled eggs, then you first need to make a coloring solution (boil with water vegetables, fruits or spice), and after - paint an egg in it (the minimum color time is 30 minutes, but you can hold all night).
Important!In order for the color of the coloring solution to be bright, it is necessary to add vinegar to it (1 tsp)
Natural dyes certainly do not give such a bright shade as chemical, but they are absolutely harmless and can paint eggs into very tender and beautiful colors.
Such multicolored testicles will definitely like your home, especially for children!
Examples of egg staining:
Yellow
Yellow eggs is obtained if you boil them in water with the addition of onion husks, carrots, cumin seeds or chamomile. A more intense color is obtained on yellow or brown eggs. Chamomile gives a gentle yellow color, it is possible to boil and strain or cook eggs along with the chamomile bags pharmacy.
Example 1: Curkum cook 15 minutes in water and immerse eggs.
Example 2: To make a dye, you need to take 1 liter of water, 3 tablespoons of turmeric powder and a grated red carrots, cook for 30 minutes.
Orange color
Orange Eggs - Juice orange zest., mandarin zest juice, paprika, red carrot juice.
Example 1: 4 tbsp. Paprika spoons need to be boiled 30 minutes in a saucepan with a glass of water, then put in a decoction of eggs.
Example 2: Soak welded hot eggs in carrot juice with the addition of turmeric (arbitrary proportions and depend on what shade you like more).
Brown color
Brown - birch leaves, black tea, coffee. It is necessary to brew strong coffee or tea and boil eggs in it.
Red-brick - leeks.
Example: On 3 liters of water you need to take 4 cups of onion husk and boil over an hour. The greater the onion husk, the richer is the dye. We lay eggs and drunk in the resulting dye. To obtain a purple shade, you need to do everything the same with the peel of the red bow.
Red color
Red, reddish-raspberry - decoction of cherry bark or cherry branches.
Example: Boil the bark or twig cherries, let it brew a few hours (it is better to peck and leave for the night), be sure to strain, cook in this infusion egg. If the decoction of cherry bark is weak, respectively, the eggs will turn into a pink shade.
Pink color
Pink and lilac shades - blueberries, lingonberries, cranberries (frozen or juice), raspberry, currant, cherry, red cabbage. In the juice you can soak already boiled eggs.
Green color
Green - dried spinach, parsley, nettle, ivy, decoction of blueberries
Example 1: On 2-3 eggs and 0.5 liters of water, take approximately the hassle of dried mother and-stepmother, ferns-orlyak or carrot topping.
Example 2: Boil eggs with truncated nasty (per liter of water 3 st l grid strap).
Example 3: To obtain a green shade of eggs, you can use fresh bilberry. For 1l scalar blueberries - 2-3 Full teaspoons of turmeric powder. Kurkumum, in order to avoid the appearance of lumps, pre-trim with water in a small dishes and only then put in the decoction of blueberries.
Example 4: Spinach destroy the finely (the frozen is also suitable), pour with water to covered. Cook 30 minutes and let it cool.
Blue colour
Blue, purple - blueberry, lingonberry or blueberry (berry should be frozen since last year), berries elderberry, leaves red cabbage - The decoction will be red, but the eggs will be painted in blue.
Example: By 0.5 liters of water to take 2 small heads of red cabbage and 6 st l 9% vinegar. Cabbage finely cut, pour hot wateradd vinegar. In this composition, immerse the boiled eggs and leave for a couple of hours. To get a deeper color of the egg it is better to leave overnight.
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