Easter: Assortment of Recipes (2)
October 25, 2009 by admin
Filed under Holiday - Easter
Natural Easter Egg Dyes
Spring Chicken Yellow
1 ts Tumeric
2/3 cups Boiling water
1/4 ts Vinegar
Wash eggs in mild soapy water to remove oily coating which could prevent dye
from sticking. .Add tumeric to boiling water, stir until dissolved. Add
vinegar. Simmer for 20 minutes
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Easter Bunny Brown
1 tb Instant coffee; heaping
2/3 cup boiling water
1/2 ts Vinegar
Wash eggs in mild soapy water to remove oily coating which could prevent dye
from sticking. Add coffee to boiling water, stir until dissolved. Add
vinegar. Simmer for 20 minutes.
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Orange: Onion skins
Red: beets, raspberries, cranberries, grape juice, or red onions
Yellow: yellow onion skins, Golden Delicious apple peels, orange peels,
saffron, lemon peels, shredded carrot, celery seed, walnut shells
Light Blue: frozen blueberries, thawed
Pale Green: spinach
1/4 ts Vinegar
Wash eggs in mild soapy water to remove oily coating which could prevent dye
from sticking. Boil eggs with one of the above-listed ingredients. Add 1/4
tsp vinegar to water. Simmer for 20 minutes.
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Egg-Ceptional Easter Cookies
Picture is in attached file
Makes about 2 dozen cookies
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened (we recommend LAND O LAKES
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