Memorial Day Recipes

Old-Fashioned Egg Dye Colors

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Old-Fashioned Egg Dye Colors

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There are many ways to accomplish colored Easter eggs. You can of course buy coloring kits at many stores this time of year. Here's a bit of an old fashioned method, but makes so many great colors and brings compliments to your completed Easter eggs and basket.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 C. boiling water
  • 1 tsp. vinegar
  • Food coloring

Directions

Combine boiling water, vinegar and the specified number of drops of food color to achieve desired colors. Dip hard cooked eggs in dye for about 5 minutes or until desired color.

For variety, try dipping the top half in one color and the bottom half in another; or leaving the egg in the dye for different lengths of time, creating different shades of a particular color. Use a slotted spoon or tongs to add or remove eggs from dye.

Following are some color combinations to create a vivid palette of colors for your Easter eggs:

Lime - 24 yellow, 4 green

Purple - 15 blue, 5 red

Cantaloupe - 24 yellow, 2 red

Jade - 17 green, 3 blue

Plum - 10 red, 4 blue

Spearmint - 12 green, 6 yellow, 2 blue

Raspberry - 14 red, 6 blue

Maize - 24 yellow, 1 red

Watermelon - 25 red, 2 blue

Teal - 15 green, 5 blue

Grape - 17 blue, 3 red

Fuchsia - 18 red, 2 blue

Orange Sunset - 17 yellow, 3 red

Jungle Green - 14 green, 6 yellow

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