Easter eggs with cold dye

Name: Easter eggs with cold dye
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 30 eggs; 1 cold water red dye; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 cup vinegar; cotton balls; olive oil for shining

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I can't imagine Easter without the bright red Easter eggs. According to tradition in Crete, my homeland, when Christ was resurrected and the whole world found out, the chicken found out as well and overjoyed, laid a red egg! This is what my grandmother used to say.

Recipe by skantalakh

Cookpad Greece @cook_8238176

Greece

Recipe by skantalakh

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Ingredients

30eggs
1cold water red dye
1/2 tspsalt
1/4 cupvinegar
cotton balls
olive oil for shining

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Steps

1

Line the bottom of a pot with cotton balls.
2

Wash and place the eggs on top of the cotton balls and cover with water until they boil over low heat for 10 minutes.
3

Dissolve the dye in hot water in a bowl and add it to the pot in about one liter of cold water.
4

Mix the vinegar and salt into the dye.
5

Put the eggs one by one into the dye.
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Leave them for a few minutes until they are red.
7

Remove them from the dye, oil them and then shine them using a cloth or kitchen paper.
8

Place the red eggs in platters and decorate your Easter table.