Apparently, the old-timers used dandelions to dye their eggs. After my sister told me that her husband's grandfather's favorite eggs were the dandelion yellow ones, I went out and did a U-pick on my garden in the rain. It solved two problems: getting rid of the seed heads from those lawn-gobbling dinner plate-sized weeds, and it gave me purty pale yellow Easter eggs. I boiled about two cups of the flower tops for about 15 minutes, then added the cooked eggs and let them soak for about 6 hours. The picture doesn't really show the color well, but they are a pale yellowy green with slight mottling from contact with the dandelion heads. The granola sites say that if you boil the root of the dandelion plant, you'll get magenta dye, by the way. Maybe next year.
2 comments:
My grandma & mom used onion skins to make pale yellow eggs. They were always my favorites :-)
Cool picture!
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