Janet wrote on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:29:24 GMT:

>> In article >,
>> "James Silverton" > wrote:

> >> Just throwing in onion skins when hard boiling the eggs is
> >> simpler.

>> Uh yeah, but you will just get rusty orange colored eggs.
>> You will NOT get that marbled patterning doing that.

> We used to draw on the egg shell with a plain wax candle
> before cooking them with onion skin; the waxed areas stayed
> pale and you could have your egg with your initials, flowers,
> chickens etc on it

The wax technique can be used with other than onion skins. Food coloring
is fine to achieve bright colos.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not