In article >,
Janet Baraclough > wrote:

> The message >
> from Omelet > contains these words:
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> > In article >,
> > "James Silverton" > wrote:
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> > > 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
>
> Janet

Yeah. Some of the older "paas" kits used to come with colored wax sticks
for the same effect.
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