Onion skin dyed eggs
The Cook wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:48:16 -0400, "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.
>>
> They are if you can't stand beets.
(laughing) Well put.
nancy
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