Easter Eggs

Name: Easter Eggs
Total time: 60 min
Ingredients: 10 eggs; a little vinegar; 2 dl water; 1 egg dye

Christ is risen!

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By Bojan Nikolić · April 24, 2008

Ingredients

1

Hard-boil 10 eggs.

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2
If you are not sure how to go about it, see the article “The art of boiling eggs” (in Serbian).

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- Umetnost barenja jaja

3

Pour 4–5 drops of vinegar into 200 ml of hot water and add the egg dye.

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4

Lower the boiled eggs into the water with the dissolved dye, add enough water to cover the eggs, boil a little longer, then lift the dyed eggs out onto clean paper.

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5

Dip the tip of a toothpick in vinegar and draw patterns on the shell. Wipe off excess vinegar with a cloth, so it doesn't dissolve the dye where you don't want it to.

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6

Choose flowers and leaves with interesting shapes, press them face down against the shell of a boiled egg and wrap the egg tightly in a nylon stocking. Tie the stocking with thread so it doesn't open during dyeing.

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7

Dye the eggs following the instructions on the dye.

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8

When the eggs are dyed, take them out of the dye and remove the stocking and the plant.

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Tip: Remove the plant quickly and completely: if it dries onto the egg, you will not be able to get it off.

9

Fold a small piece of paper until you end up with a triangle.
10

Cut small shapes out along the edges of the triangle.
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Unfold the paper and you will see an interesting pattern.
12

Dip the paper shape in plain water, so it sticks to the shell more easily, press it against a boiled egg and wrap it in a nylon stocking.

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13

Tie the stocking with thread and dye the eggs as already described.

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Tip: Rub the dyed eggs with a cloth dipped in oil to give them a high shine. If you decorate the eggs with a sticker, put it on before you oil the egg.