In article 0>,
Wayne Boatwright > wrote:

> On Tue 23 Mar 2010 02:38:09p, Nancy Young told us...
>
> > Omelet wrote:
> >
> >> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> >
> >>> My earlier post about this disappeared into the ether, I guess.
> >>>
> >>> I mentioned that wrapping the egg in a red cabbage leaf the way you
> >>> say produces a blue marbled egg.
> >
> >> I saw it... and I want to try it.
> >
> > Oh, it didn't show up for me until later. Whatever. I did that
> > once and the color blue really was pretty, with the white veining
> > showing through. I don't know what colors the other cabbages
> > would produce.
> >
> > nancy
> >
>
> Another color and method is boiling the eggs with beet peelings, which
> gives a very pretty deep rose color.

Hm. Give me an excuse to purchase fresh beets for dad, and the fresh
beet greens for ME. ;-d

You have seen my pickled beets. They are a pleasant rose color from just
using canned beet juice. I may have to try it on the shells.
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