Western•budget
Easter Egg Natural Dye
We used natural dyes to color and real flowers to imprint patterns to make our homemade unique and beautiful natural Easter Eggs
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 1/2 head purple cabbage
- skins from 3-4 yellow onions
- 12 white eggs
- 7 tbsp of white vinegar
- Flowers or leaves for pattern making
- pantyhose
- twisty ties
Instructions
- 1
Chop up cabbage and put in one pot with water to cover. Put four cups water into another pot and peel off onion skins and toss them in. Bring to boil and then simmer covered for 1/2 hour.
- 2
Press flower and or leaves flat against the eggs, slide pantyhose over and tie tightly on both ends.
- 3
Strain out cabbage and onions skins from pots.
- 4
Add 4 tbsp vinegar to cabbage dye and 3 tbsp to onions skin dye.
- 5
Add in eggs gently, bring back to a simmer and cook 1/2 hour.
- 6
Turn off heat and let sit in dye liquid for an hour or however long it takes to achieve your desired dye saturation.