Dyed easter eggs

[Blackpowder]

Further to the topic on chocolate eggs does anyone still dye and or decorate Easter Eggs?

 

Blackpowder

[Shuck.]

Dyed eggs, come again

[Blackpowder]

Dyed eggs, come again

Come on lad you must be a mere whippersnapper even on April 1st if you have never heard of dyed eggs

 

Blackpowder

[Shuck.]

You're going to make me google this, aren't you

 

edit: Hah I never knew about that, still makes no sense to me though!

 

So you never had choc eggs as a nipper, BP

Edited April 1, 2010 by Shuck.

[Frenchieboy]

Are you refering to painting your hard boiled eggs at Easter time like we used to do when we were kids mate?

[Ozzy Fudd]

hardboiled eggs? havnt done that in years

[Blackpowder]

Hi Shuck, I thought you were winding me up on April 1st that you had never heard of dyed easter eggs. It was a strong tradition for us wartime kids, the easter eagg usually hens or ducks was dyed using something like onion skins to make a fancy pattern as they were being hard boiled. It could be quite an art form some mothers tying the eggs in lace, or binding primroses to the eggs with non fast dyed cloth. These hard boiled eggs were rolled on Easter Monday, most villages and farms had a sloping grass field where this took place, once the eggs had been rolled and broken the first two or three were consumed with extreme gusto until the novelty wore of. Sometimes known as , "pace eggs" about here the rolling was supposed to signify the rolling aside of the boulders sealing Christ's tomb, or so we were told at school. Yes eventually Blackpowder did get his chocolate egg most likely sometime in the early 1950s, but never as a nipper as there simple were none.

 

Regards Blackpowder

[Frenchieboy]

Nor have I mate, at damn near 60 years old the wife won't let me "play with my food" any more, mind you I still cut my toast into soldiers and line them up on the plate when I have soft boiled eggs for brekkies!

 

Edit: Thanks for that snippet of information Blackpowder (You really are showing your age now). I wasn't aware that they used onion skins and things like that to dye them with.

There you go guys, you learn something new every day from us "Old Fogies"!

Edited April 1, 2010 by Frenchieboy

[Cosd]

Dyed eggs every year without fail.

 

Kids love them and so do I.........

[Blackpowder]

Nor have I mate, at damn near 60 years old the wife won't let me "play with my food" any more, mind you I still cut my toast into soldiers and line them up on the plate when I have soft boiled eggs for brekkies!

 

Almost 60, but a slip of a lad!

 

Blackpowder

[woodcock11]

Yes, every year we go out and pick a handful of yellow flowers from the gorse [furze] bushes and add them to the boiling water when cooking boiled eggs for Easter Day breakfast - it makes the shells go yellow but it is not so effective now that most eggs have brown rather than white shells.

 

Which reminds of the saying that my late mother quoted "when gorse is not flowering, kissing is out of fashion". Thankfully gorse round here seems to be in flower all the time!

[-oXo-]

Yumyum

 

[Shuck.]

Yea thanks for the bit of folk history BP its a pity we've lost that community spirit too regarding the egg rolling ceremony..

Looks like its just Cosd who carries on the legacy, do you do it still BP?

[aaron airgunner]

when i was 5 i used to get eggs and make a tiny hole in the top and bottom and all the yolk and white would come out then i would paint them and hang them in trees and things.

[Blackpowder]

Yea thanks for the bit of folk history BP its a pity we've lost that community spirit too regarding the egg rolling ceremony..

Looks like its just Cosd who carries on the legacy, do you do it still BP?

No family is grown up and no grandchildren so it is very much a thing of the past for me at the moment. Speaking to a friend the other day and he was recalling when his children were young, mainly about how variable Eastrer weather could be ,as they had rolled their eggs in everything from hail showers to suffering the effect s of sunburn.

 

Blackpowder

[pyr8]

used to use wax crayon to make patterns before you dyed them.then remove wax with hot water.you could make some intricate patterns this way.

[Ferret Master]

Went egg rolling for years back in the day...

 

And for all you nostalgic old men who think all the old ways have died, I'm 17.

 

FM