Easter Eggs
Adapted from The Kitchn
Boiled and dyed naturally
Ingredients
Each of the colours below will dye 5 - 6 eggs, so decide how many eggs you want to colour and pre-boil them. Then choose your colours from this list:
2 cups shredded beets = reddish pink on white eggs, maroon on brown eggs
2 cups red onion skins = reddish orange on white eggs or red on brown eggs
2 cups yellow onion skins = orange on white eggs, rusty red on brown eggs
1/4 cup ground turmeric = yellow eggs
2 cups chopped purple cabbage & 1/4 cup ground turmeric (two separate soaks) = green eggs
2 cups chopped purple cabbage = blue on white eggs, green on brown eggs
2 cups blueberries = blue eggs
2 cups dried hibiscus flowers = lavender or indigo eggs
You will also need water, cheap vinegar and some vegetable oil for polishing.
Method
Place your chosen colour medium and and two cups of water in a saucepan and simmer (covered) for 15 to 30 minutes.
Strain the liquid and add 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar to every 1 cup strained dye liquid.
Soak hard-boiled eggs in the dye liquid and refrigerate (2 cups of dye liquid will dye about 6 eggs).
Dry the eggs and polish with a little oil to make them shine.