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Default Onion skin dyed eggs

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:41:31 -0400, "Nancy Young"
> wrote:

> 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.
>

Are they planning to eat egg shells?

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