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Default Onion skin dyed eggs

J. Clarke wrote:
> On 3/23/2010 11:42 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> On Tue 23 Mar 2010 02:38:09p, Nancy Young told us...

>>
>>>> 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.

>>
>>> Another color and method is boiling the eggs with beet peelings,
>>> which gives a very pretty deep rose color.

>>
>> Hmmm ... wouldn't it be dangerous to cook the eggs with something
>> inedible? ... I suppose you could label them Do Not Eat.

>
> Beet peelings are no more inedible than onion skins.


It was just a little beet joke.

nancy