Easter eggs dyed with onion husks - how to paint the eggs in onion skins, simple ways of painting Easter.

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

For many centuries our ancestors successfully painted eggs for Easter with an ordinary onion peel.

Onion peel, starting with the carnival, the hostess is usually not discarded and a little dried and stacked in a linen bag. Before Easter, it just accumulated the required number of eggs to be painted.

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

To eggs for brighter, just need to take to paint a smaller amount of peel and boil it for three to five minutes.

Also, the final color of eggs for painting husk depends on onion varieties. Each grade has its husk color - purple, gold, deep orange, red, light - yellow.

Here are some ways how beautiful and original paint eggs using onion peel to get different effects.

The uniform coloring of eggs.

Eggs before painting need of control of the refrigerator, so that they warmed to room temperature and do not burst during cooking. Then, fold the husks of onions in the pan, fill it with boiling water and let it brew for two - three hours. Next, lay out in the onion infusion of eggs and put the pot on the fire. After boiling, remove the heat to the minimum level mark and boil the eggs for ten minutes. After the water cools, the eggs must be removed from the infusion with a spoon and wipe them with a paper towel.

Painted eggs "spotted" or speckled eggs.

Each egg must first be dipped in water, and then roll in dry semolina, rice or corn rump. Further, the egg must be tightly wrap a piece of gauze. To croup better adjoined to the egg, the ends are tied gauze tightly thread. Next, the eggs are cooked in onion infusion, as in the first method.

Krashenki patterned.

To the staining of onion peel turned out pretty patterns must be applied to the balls small leaves, flowers, grass (can be dried or fresh plucked). Further, as the second method, the egg wrap with gauze and boiled in onion skins.

Decorate eggs pattern or pattern can be otherwise. If the leaves and flowers you did not have on hand, you can simply tie before cooking the egg with a piece of lace.

Marble eggs in onion skins.

To get on a painted egg "marble" divorce is necessary before cooking each egg wrapped in onion peel. Then, together with the husk to wrap the egg in cotton cloth white gauze or a piece of nylon stocking.

For a more pronounced effect of the marble is best to use onion peel of different colors (from the different varieties of onions).

The second option how to make marble eggs slightly different from the first, but also very simple. Multi-colored (red, yellow, orange) peel need arms or scissors chop into small pieces and add to peel a few small pieces of paper. Egg need to pre-wetted with water to the mixture of paper and better peel adhered thereto. Then, binds the eggs to roll in a mixture of husk and pieces of paper, gauze pieces of linen cloth or stocking. Further, in a saucepan add water, onion peel and placed husk wrapped eggs. Boil the eggs needed for thirty - forty minutes on low heat. Videos from 365COVETOV how to make marble eggs.

The painted eggs in the striped or striped balls.

When painting the onion peel you can get the original striped eggs. For this purpose, prior to painting, every egg you need to tightly wrap a rubber band or thread, which can be applied to the egg both symmetrically and asymmetrically. How to make - it's only a matter of your inspiration and imagination.

Then, omit them in the infusion of onion peel and boil for half an hour.

To Easter eggs, painted in the traditional way in a useful natural dyes, have been even more beautiful, shiny and looked on the holiday table more effectively, after cooling, it is necessary each egg gently rub a cotton pad soaked in vegetable oil.

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