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Marble eggs
An essential and ancient attribute of festive kulich and cottage cheese paskha – dyed eggs. In this bright holiday of Easter, each family embodies its own method of dyeing, and the variety is immense. Marble eggs for Easter are one of the bright and uncomplicated options. To achieve a marble effect, you can dye eggs with hibiscus tea. Additionally, ordinary rice and food colorings help achieve the effect of marble crumbs. To learn all the details of how to dye eggs for Easter in this way, one should consider the recipe offered.
Preparation time: 15 minutes.
Ingredients
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- eggs - 5-6 pcs;
- food colorings of different colors – as many as there are eggs;
- rice - 250 g.
Preparation
- Prepare the ingredients. The eggs should be white – the colors will show better on them. You can use fewer colorings than eggs, as the colors can be mixed together to obtain a new shade.
- Thoroughly wash the eggshell with a sponge and baking soda.
- Place the eggs in a saucepan and cover them with water to the brim. As a precaution, to keep the eggs intact during boiling, add a small spoon of salt. After boiling, cook them hard, that is, for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare food cellophane bags and put rice into them (50 grams in each). To avoid making the table dirty, arrange everything on a large plate or tray.
- When the eggs are boiled, remove them from the heat, but do not take them out of the boiling water – they need to be hot. Pour 15-20 milliliters of the first dye into one of the bags, mixing it as indicated on the packaging.
- Squeeze the bag with rice in your hand and shake it to ensure the grains are dyed evenly.
- Place an egg inside. Squeeze the bag again in your hand and shake it together with the egg.
- After a few seconds, the first egg will be ready - it will have a finely grained marble surface. Wipe off the grains of rice stuck to the shell with a napkin. The fact that the egg is hot causes the dye to set instantly, forming such marble crumbs.
- Do the same with the orange dye.
- In sequence, immerse the egg in the purple rice.
- Give it a marbled colorful structure.
- You can combine 2 colors together - it will result in a completely different shade.
- As a result, from four colorings, there were five different shades of eggs.
Such beautiful and unusual marble eggs will surprise and delight your family and friends. According to the preserved tradition, part of them will be exchanged for other eggs, also dyed with love.
