How to make the strongest egg. How to boil eggs
POPPY CAKE
Dough:
2 cups of 250 gr poppy seeds,
0.5 cup raisins.
0.5 cup nuts
5 table spoons of breadcrumbs,
10 eggs
13 table. spoons of sugar.
Cream:
1 can of boiled condensed milk
0.5 kg butter,
juice of 1 lemon.
Poppy steam for the night.
Turn 2 times through a meat grinder, add raisins, nuts and crackers.
Separate the whites from the yolks, beat until a strong foam
-proteins with 7 tbsp. l. Sahara,
-yolks from 6 tbsp. l. Sahara.
Spoon eggs into poppy seeds.
Line a springform pan with foil and brush with oil
pour the dough, put in a hot oven for 1.5-2 hours.
Cool completely, cut into 2 or 3 cakes, grease with cream.
Drizzle with chocolate icing.
Cake "Love me"
Separate the whites from the yolks. Mix 9 proteins and 3 cups of sugar without beating, and put in the cold for an hour, then beat until a meringue consistency. Sprinkle a baking sheet with flour or put tracing paper and put the whipped squirrels on a baking sheet in small cakes (the size of a Soviet penny, for those who no longer remember what it looked like - 3 cm in diameter), put in a warm oven and dry until cooked. Rub a pound of butter and 3/4 cup of sugar until fluffy and gradually add a little beaten yolks. Finely chop the nuts or pass through a meat grinder. Pour nuts into the beaten mass, vanilla to taste, pour in 50 grams of vodka and beat again until fluffy. Collect the cake immediately in the dishes that are served on the table. Lubricate each dried cake with cream and put on a dish, grease the whole hill with the remaining cream, decorate with the remaining cakes or sprinkle with chocolate or nuts and put in the cold.
eggs - 9 pcs., sugar - 3.75 cups, walnuts - 1 cup
vodka or cognac - 50 g, butter - 0.5 kg
Cake "Turtle"
Dough: 6 eggs + 1.5 cups sugar (dissolved) + 2 tablespoons cocoa + 1 teaspoon baking soda + 2 cups flour.
GLAZE: 2 tablespoons milk + 2 tablespoons sugar + 50 g butter (butter) + 2 tablespoons cocoa. Cook the glaze over low heat until the state of liquid sour cream. CREAM: 2 cups sour cream + 200 g butter + 1 cup sugar. Whisk everything.
Sprinkle a baking sheet lightly with flour and spread the dough in the form of small cakes with teaspoons. Bake at t 200C. Dip each tortilla in the cream and stack on a shell-shaped dish. On the sides make 4 paws and a head. Pour glaze over the shell (if there is not enough glaze, make another portion) Put the cake in the refrigerator overnight - soak.
Eggs - 6 pcs., Flour - 2 cups, Sugar - 2.5 cups, Cocoa - 4 tbsp. spoons
Soda - 1 teaspoon, Milk - 2 tablespoons, Oil - 250 g, Sour cream - 2 cups.
Cupcake "Christmas"
Rub the butter with sugar until white, add the yolks and continue to rub the mass until the sugar crystals disappear completely. Then add warm melted honey with cinnamon, add sour cream, salt, soda, add flour and add whites whipped into a stable foam, quickly knead a light fluffy dough of the consistency of thick sour cream, also quickly spread it into a cupcake form liberally greased with softened butter and dusted with flour, carefully place into the oven and bake at t = 180C for an hour or a little more.
flour - 600 g, butter - 250 g, honey - 250 g, powdered sugar - 250 g
sugar - 1 cup, eggs - 6 pcs., sour cream - 500 g, finely chopped nuts - 100 g
soda - 1 teaspoon, cinnamon - 1 teaspoon, salt - a pinch
Norwegian cookies "Bantiki"
3 eggs, 2 tbsp. Flour, 0.5 tbsp. Melt Drain. oils, powdered sugar.
Grind the yolk of a hard-boiled egg well. Add 2 raw yolks and grind the mixture until a smooth mass is obtained. Pour in 1 tbsp. flour, add melted plums. Oil and 1 tbsp. flour. Knead a smooth dough, separate walnut-sized pieces from it, pull them out in the form of a ribbon and tie them with a bow. baking sheet. Bake in a very hot oven.
"Orange"
Dough: 8 eggs, 8 tbsp. l. ground, not peeled almond kernels, 1 orange, 1 tbsp. l. grated breadcrumbs, 8 tbsp. l. Sahara.
Cream: 4 yolks, 5 tbsp. l. sugar, 5 tbsp. l. milk, 1 orange, 180 gr. vanillin 175 gr. sour cream.
Decoration: 1-2 oranges.
Yolks 8 eggs with 8 tbsp. l. grind sugar with a mixer or manually (20 min). Add zest and juice of 1 orange. Put the mass in two identical forms, greased with oil and sprinkled with flour.
Cream: Yolks, sugar, milk, juice of 1 oranges and vanillin, steam until thickened. Remove from heat and add a piece of butter, without ceasing to stir. Put the cream on one cake and cover with another. Top the cake again with cream. Garnish with sour cream, whipped with sugar and orange slices.
"Lady fingers"
On fire 1.5 tbsp. water + 150 gr. oil and, when it boils, add 1.5 tbsp. flour, stirring. Cool the dough, beat in 6 eggs alternately. Put the custard dough on a baking sheet, greased with oil, with oblong small sausages.
Cream: 2 tbsp. cold sour cream + st. Sahara. Dip the baked fingers in the cream and put on a dish with a woodpile. Sprinkle cocoa or grated chocolate on top.
Cupcakes with fruit juice
sugar - 1 glass;
egg - 8 pcs.;
ground walnut (or hazelnuts) - 1/2 cup;
flour - 1/2 cup;
butter -3 tbsp;
fruit juice (preferably cherry) - 100g;
grated lemon zest of lemon and orange - to taste;
vanilla sugar - to taste;
cream - 1.5 cups;
egg - 8 pcs.
Egg yolks (6 pcs.), 2 eggs, 1/2 cup sugar, beat until foamy, then add vanilla sugar, strong foam from 6 egg whites and 3 tbsp. Sahara. Mix flour with ground almonds, zest and add to the prepared mass. After that, mix the whole mass with melted butter.
Grease small muffin pans with oil, fill halfway with the mass and bake at low temperature. Ready muffins put on a dish and pour fruit (cherry) juice.
Whip cream with 2 tbsp. sugar into a strong foam, fill them with a pastry syringe and decorate the surface of the cupcakes. You can put fresh or canned berries on top.
Cupcake with nuts and raisins
To make cupcakes you will need:
flour - 1 cup;
egg - 6 pcs.;
peeled nuts - 1 cup;
raisins (pitted) - 1 cup;
sugar - 1 cup.
Proteins are whipped into a strong foam, the yolks are ground with sugar, then all this is mixed and nuts and raisins are added. Mix well again. The prepared dough is poured
In a form with oiled paper sprinkled with breadcrumbs. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 45-50 minutes.
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COFFEE CAKE WITH RAISINS (KATERINA)
350 g flour
250 g butter margarine or butter
250 g sugar (powdered sugar is better)
5 eggs
100 g raisins
1 teaspoon baking soda quenched with lemon juice or vinegar
2-3 tablespoons of ground coffee brewed in 100 ml of water, chilled and strained
Separate the whites from the yolks of three eggs. Grind white margarine with sugar. Without stopping grinding, gradually add 3 yolks and 2 eggs one at a time, pour in coffee and mix everything gently. If you don't have ground coffee, you can replace it with instant coffee. Pour flour and quenched soda into the dough. Roll slightly steamed raisins in a small amount of flour and add to the dough. Mix everything thoroughly. Then beat the whites into a strong foam and quickly combine them with the dough, gently mixing with smooth movements from top to bottom.
Put the dough into a form, previously carefully greased with oil and dusted with flour. Bake in the same way as in the recipe "Curd-lemon cupcake-2". Sprinkle the finished cake with powdered sugar.
You can bake small cupcakes instead of a whole cupcake.
SALTED OLIVE CAKE (NATY)
200 g ham (or boiled sausage)
100 g cheese
50 g grated cheese
30 g olives b/c
50 g cottage cheese
50 g butter
4 eggs
150 g flour
1/2 liter dry white wine
salt
pepper
baking powder
Grind the cottage cheese and butter until smooth, add the yolks, flour, stirring constantly, pour in the wine, salt, pepper, grated cheese, half a bag of baking powder, then add the ham and cheese, cut into pieces, and finally the olives, cut into halves. Put the whole thing in a greased rectangular cake pan and bake in a hot (200 °) oven for 45 minutes. Before serving, cut into slices, arrange beautifully on a dish, scatter olives on top.
27.04.2002 19:04:47,
Today we will boil eggs .... Do you think there is nothing to be able to do here, and everything is elementary? They threw eggs into boiling water, after a certain number of minutes they got it out, and you're done? It is not that simple! Therefore, I will devote an entire post to boiled eggs.
To begin with, I turned to my beloved Harold McGee.
Let's talk about hard boiled eggs.
According to McGee, boiling is not the best way to boil eggs. Turbulent water causes the eggs to spin, leading to cracking of the shell, leakage of protein.
When the temperature at which eggs are boiled greatly exceeds their coagulation temperature, the outer layers of the protein become "rubber". Eggs should be boiled at 80ºC -85ºC. McGee recommends steaming the eggs. If you boil them in water, it will take you 10-15 minutes (depending on the size of the egg and the method of cooking) for hard boiled eggs. After 10 minutes, the protein becomes white and elastic, while the yolk remains slightly moist and crumbly. After 15 minutes, it becomes lighter, drier and granular.
Sometimes the eggs are boiled for many hours to bring out the color and flavor. For example, Chinese tea eggs are boiled until tender, then the shells are slightly cracked, and simmered in a mixture of tea, salt, sugar and spices to produce a marbled and very fragrant elastic protein.
What is a perfectly boiled egg?
A properly boiled egg has a firm yet tender texture. The shell remains intact and is easily peeled off, the yolk is in the center, its taste is delicate and not sulphurous.
To get a good texture and taste, you need not to overcook the egg. Any method that is well below boiling point will help avoid overcooking. After boiling, it is worth lowering the eggs into ice water.
How to fight against cracking of the shell and shells that are not peeled off well?
First of all, boil the eggs at a "low boil". Paradoxically, in order to guarantee a beautifully cleaned egg, you need to use an old egg! This is due to the low pH of the fresh egg protein, which makes the protein adhere more strongly to the shell. A few days after laying the eggs in the refrigerator, the pH rises and the shells peel off more easily. You can add a little baking soda to the water while boiling to make it more alkaline. But it can enhance the sulfuric taste of the eggs.
If you want an "attractive" slicing egg, use good quality fresh eggs and keep them on their sides in the refrigerator. Although, the last rule has not been proven 100% and cannot be fully relied upon.
green yolks
It happens that a gray-green spot appears on the surface of the yolk of a hard-boiled egg. It is a harmless formation of iron and sulfur (iron sulfide). It forms at the junction of the protein and the yolk, because there the sulfur from the protein comes into contact with the iron from the yolk. The alkaline environment of water and an increase in temperature are conducive to the "leakage" of sulfur atoms from the protein proteins, after which the sulfur reacts with iron on the surface layer of the yolk. The older the eggs, the faster this reaction occurs. High temperature and long cooking also enhance this reaction.
To minimize the "greening" of the yolk, you can use fresh eggs, cooking them as little as possible, and cooling immediately after boiling.
Regarding soft-boiled eggs and in a bag
All the same cooking rules apply to such eggs, only it is necessary to reduce the cooking time depending on the desired result.
Let's look at the terminology used by McGee:
French oeuf à la coque boiled for only 2-3 minutes to get a warm, but semi-liquid protein and yolk. We call such eggs - soft-boiled eggs.
Coddled or “soft-boiled” eggs, boiled for 3-5 minutes to get a slightly hardened outer protein, a semi-liquid inner and a runny warm protein.
If we boil the eggs for 5-6 minutes (mollet eggs (from the French molle,“soft”), then we get a semi-liquid yolk and sufficiently elastic protein to peel a whole egg from the shell.
It seems to me that both options can be attributed to eggs boiled in a bag. Only everyone likes a different degree of cooking. I prefer the second option.
Maybe someone knows how these two methods of cooking are called in Russian? What is the linguistic difference?
From theory to practice
Having studied the theory, I decided to move on to practice. So, McGee advises boiling eggs at 80ºC -85ºC. How to do it? I never figured it out. After all, even if you first bring the water to this temperature, even with very light bubbling, it will still rise to 95ºC in a couple of minutes, or even up to 98 ºC!
I turned to the book Essentials of Professional Cooking. The book gives three options for boiling eggs in the shell.
There are two general rules that apply to all of them. Eggs should be taken out of the refrigerator an hour before cooking. You can warm them to room temperature by putting them in warm water for 5 minutes. Cold eggs can crack from temperature contrast. The exact cooking time depends on the size of the eggs and the temperature.
Option number 1
1. Dip the eggs into the boiling water, and immediately reduce the heat so that the eggs boil slowly, but do not boil.
2. Boil the required time:
- Soft cooked ( soft) 3 to 4 minutes
Medium cooked (medium) 5 to 7 minutes
Hard cooked (hard) 12 to 15 minutes
3. Cool immediately under running cold water. Refrigerate briefly if you want to serve the eggs warm. Hold longer if you are simmering eggs for later.
4. Start cleaning from the blunt end. For easier cleaning, run the eggs under cold water.
Option number 2
1. Place the eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water.
2. Let the water boil
3. Reduce the heat and cook for the required time:
Soft cooked 1 minute
Medium cooked 3 to 5 minutes
Option number 3 (Only for hard boiled eggs)
Follow all the same steps as in option number 2, but after the water boils, remove the pan from the heat, cover with a lid and let the eggs stand for 20 minutes.
It didn't end there. I decided to conduct an experiment.
I took out 3 eggs from the refrigerator in advance, bought two days ago at the market. According to the seller, at the time of purchase, the eggs were three days old. Weight - about 70 grams, that is, a selected egg. By American standards, this egg is large. I boiled all three eggs hard boiled.
I will make a reservation right away. I cannot give you exact times and temperatures for each egg size.
To do this, I would need to use hundreds of eggs, spend 2 weeks in the kitchen, and burn a lot of electricity. If there is a sponsor, then I'm almost ready.
But I think my findings will help you!
In the first two options, the minimum temperature that I managed to reach was 92 degrees and with almost imperceptible bubbling. In the third option, the temperature of the water at the time of removal from the fire was 95 degrees, and dropped to 70 degrees after 20 minutes. How to cook eggs at 80-85 degrees, I never thought of. Any ideas?
In the first version, I cooked for 12 minutes.
In the second 10 minutes.
In the third, I kept the eggs in hot water for 20 minutes.
The result was the same for all three options. The protein is very tender, elastic, but not rubbery. The yolk is slightly moist in places and crumbly. That is, for a steeper yolk, it was necessary to add a few minutes. Eggs did peel better when I kept them under cold running water longer.
Here is a photo of one of the eggs in the section.
All three options turned out the same, so I give one photo.
Conclusion: You will determine the exact cooking time for yourself by trial and error. This skill will come with time. It is important not to let the eggs boil wildly. Let the water bubble slightly, as in the photo.
Pro salt
I always add salt to the water when boiling eggs. To keep them from cracking. Sometimes, the shell still burst. Interestingly, neither McGee nor Glisslein recommend adding salt when cooking. They don't have a word about it at all. I turned to Uncle Google.
And I found the following information:
And, as we remember, salt was put into the water from the very beginning. The question again arises: why is this necessary?
In its natural form, egg white is a viscous liquid, consisting mainly of water (88%) and protein, protein itself (11%). Under normal conditions, a long protein molecule is folded into a ball under the action of internal chemical bonds. Such balls float in water without reacting with each other. This picture changes dramatically with increasing temperature. The higher the temperature, the faster the water molecules move, the more energetically they collide with the balls. In the end, the weak internal bonds of protein coils are torn, and they turn into ribbons. These ribbons chemically bond to each other to form a strong and resilient three-dimensional network. We say: the protein has folded (although, paradoxically, for this, its molecules had to turn around).
Not only high temperature can expand protein molecules. Chemical bonds are electrical in nature, and a change in the number of charged particles around a molecule can cause molecular bonds to break spontaneously. This is what happens when salts and other compounds that give ions are dissolved in water. These charged ions contribute to the rapid formation of the protein network. In other words, protein coagulates faster in salt water. This is the meaning of salting water when boiling eggs: if the shell bursts, the protein will instantly curl up in a crack, sealing it tightly.
It seems that I was mistaken.
I didn't add salt when cooking. Soda on the advice of McGee also did not add. When boiling eggs in three versions, the most severely cracked egg was dipped in boiling water. The shell of the egg left to reach 20 minutes did not burst. And burst a little at the egg, lowered into cold water. I think this is explained by the fact that with gradual heating, there is no sharp temperature drop. In general, I really liked the 3rd option for hard boiled eggs, and I prefer the second one for soft-boiled or bagged eggs.
All! Next time we will poach eggs and make omelettes. By the way, not without the help of Julia Child!
Photo from Food Preparation bookThe tradition of painting Easter eggs with your own hands has a long history. According to legend, Mary Magdalene, having learned about the resurrection of Christ, appeared in Rome to the emperor Tiberius. According to tradition, the emperor was supposed to give gifts, but since Mary Magdalene had nothing but faith in Jesus, she presented him with an egg with the words “Christ is Risen”.
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The emperor considered that a miraculous resurrection was as impossible as turning a white egg into red, but before he could finish the phrase, the egg turned bright red. Since then, the egg has been considered a symbol of the miraculous ascension of Christ into heaven, and with it the purification.
For Easter, most Russians paint Easter eggs burgundy, by boiling in onion skins. This is the least expensive and easiest way to follow traditions. But, in order to approach this matter more creatively, many make a herbarium of leaves and plants in advance. And someone has already grown fresh herbs. Let's see how all this can be applied to DIY Easter egg painting.
Beautiful Easter eggs with your own hands
Painted Easter eggs with onion skins with ornament
There is nothing complicated here. Prepare for the ornament some greenery, leaves, grass, and even something carved with your own hands. Nylon tights that you do not wear, but wanted to throw away, and a thin rope, or vice versa, a thick thread.
We will glue the leaves and other things to the eggs with the help of a paste, so that for sure it will not move out. This is a universal paste recipe that will come in handy when decorating Easter eggs with your own hands, and in other ways.
Paste preparation: For one glass of water, one teaspoon with a slide of starch is taken. Dilute starch in a small amount of cold water and pour a glass of boiling water in a stream, stirring all the time. The starch should turn from white to clear and thicken. You can put it on the stove and boil for a couple of minutes.
All the paste is ready, cool down and you can use it. Starch is a food product; kissels and much more are made on its basis. Therefore, using starch paste when decorating Easter eggs, you should not be afraid of anything, feel free to use it. Further, when decorating eggs, where the words will be used: glue, stick, grease with glue. So keep in mind that a paste is used here.
Let me give you one more hint: Well, you don’t have starch, or you just don’t want to mess with it, you can lubricate the surface with egg white and stick whatever you want. But, in this case, your art can peel off faster. Because, when the protein solidifies, it turns into a film. In a word, you choose how to stick decorations on Easter eggs with your own hands.
For coloring eggs in onion peel with an ornament, we naturally take the onion peel itself, the pan. We put the husk in it, fill it with cold water. For boiling eggs, it is advisable to salt the water, since it is impossible to see microcracks on the eggs. Such eggs will simply leak out when boiled, but this will not happen in salt water.
Remove the eggs for dyeing and boiling from the refrigerator in advance so that they warm up to room temperature. We take an egg, stick a leaf on it, or whatever you have prepared there. We cut off a piece of nylon (tights), carefully tighten the egg with a leaf so that it does not wrinkle and tie it with a thread.
We do this with all the eggs, put them in a saucepan and cook, as usual, no more than 10 minutes. I cook for 5-7 minutes, then turn off and leave the eggs in the husk (they will reach) so that they gain more color. Then we take out, remove the stocking, wash the eggs, dry them. They are all ready!
By the way, this same process can be done with food coloring. Only the eggs should already be cooked, do not forget about it.
Coloring Easter eggs with stains and different intensities
I also think this process of coloring eggs is not difficult, but a little more laborious. Boil the eggs first. While they are cooking, we dilute a different dye, in different containers, of course. We put boiled eggs in dyes, paint to the color that you need.
Take out, dry. And in the container to the dyes, add a teaspoon of vegetable oil. Again we release the eggs into the dye with the addition of oil. We take it out, blot it with paper napkins and at this moment beautiful and unusual stains appear on the eggs.
Another way of dyeing Easter eggs, where the colors will be of different intensities. In containers (preferably in glasses), we dilute food coloring, and add not much water at all, for starters. We release the boiled egg, it should only hide the bottom.
Then, as the eggs are colored, we add water all the time. And you get very beautiful stripes, different in color.
And now for those who want to get more creative with the process, here are some ideas for decorating Easter eggs with your own hands. To do this, of course, you need to go to the nearest store to purchase what will be needed. And, we will look for something at home.
We will go with you to buy paints, brushes, colored paper, permanent markers, multi-colored beads, culinary sprinkles (if you haven’t already bought them for Easter cakes). Various interesting stickers for Easter eggs (in the form of eyes, smiles, different faces), multi-colored napkins, colored threads, elastic bands of different widths, adhesive tape (if you don’t have one), gold foil.
Decorating Easter eggs with decoupage
For work, as you understand, we will need: hard-boiled eggs (it is highly desirable that they do not crack, since an egg with cracks, you see, somewhat worsens the appearance of the product). Well, we begin to create, with decoupage. What is decoupage, I think it is not necessary to explain?
We take the multi-colored napkins we bought, cut out the drawings we like and glue them on the eggs with the help of a paste. Here we give free rein to our imagination and create for our own pleasure. See how beautiful do-it-yourself Easter eggs look with the help of decoupage.
To keep the napkin stronger, you can varnish the egg. But, if you eat it, then you do not need to do this. Just keep in mind for the future, if you want to give someone a gift, then you can apply a transparent varnish on a pasted napkin.
Hand drawn Easter eggs
This type of art on Easter eggs is suitable for those who love and know how to draw. On a painted egg, first we apply a drawing with a pencil (any theme of the drawing), then we take a very thin brush and circle it with paints. Let's dry. And to fix the picture, you can cover it with varnish.
Drawing on Easter eggs with a permanent felt-tip pen
This type of egg decoration is also more suitable for people who can draw. And, I will tell you this, it is not necessary to draw some unpretentious patterns. Draw what you want, the main thing is that you like it.
DIY Easter eggs with patina and gold
Golden eggs are not difficult to make. Gold food coloring, diluted in water and dipped boiled eggs into it. I just think that golden eggs must be on the Easter table. Just like in a fairy tale, a chicken laid a testicle not simple, but golden ...
Under the patina, boiled eggs are first painted with colored dyes. Then grease with paste, wrap tightly in gold foil. Dry, unfold, rub over the egg with a brush or nail file, revealing the main color in places. It turns out a very beautiful color.
Coloring Easter eggs in an interesting ornament
This will require silk material, or an unwanted tie that your husband no longer wears, and you are about to throw it away. Do not hurry! Such a tie will turn Easter eggs into a real masterpiece. Cut the tie into strips, wrap the egg in the front side, tie. Put to boil in water with the addition of vinegar.
Cool, untie and you will get such a beauty.
Coloring Easter eggs with glitter
Scatter glitter on newspaper. Spread the boiled egg with paste and roll in glitter, let dry. And, if desired, you can draw pictures and sprinkle with sparkles. Looks very nice.
Easter egg coloring with lace
We wrap the boiled egg in lace fabric, tie it, let it go into the dye, take it out, wash it, dry it.
Easy dyeing of Easter eggs with colored threads
It's quite simple here. Gently wrap multi-colored threads around the egg, tie the ends, and boil the eggs in water with the addition of vinegar. Then remove everything, wash the eggs, dry them and you're done.
DIY Easter egg coloring with scotch tape
Also not a difficult option for coloring eggs. With your imagination, everything can be done wonderfully. Cut out squares, stripes, of different lengths and widths from adhesive tape, stick on the eggs as you like and cook in the husk. Or release into dyes. In this case, you can make multi-colored eggs by changing the shape of the tape and releasing the egg into a different dye. It will be bright, beautiful and interesting!
Coloring Easter eggs with rubber bands
Wrap the boiled egg with rubber bands, you can have different thicknesses and release it into the dye. Then remove the gum, rinse and dry. It turns out not bad.
Coloring Easter eggs with your own hands marbled
Here, we will not color the shell, I am the egg itself. So, if you have eggs that cracked during cooking, do not despair. Now we will color them. Break the shell with a spoon, pour strong tea leaves or soy sauce. Let stand for a while, then peel, and ... voila, you have a marbled and very beautiful egg.
We decorate Easter eggs with our own hands with beads
Pour the beads on a plate or paper. Lubricate the boiled egg with paste and roll the eggs in beads, let dry. They look very beautiful.
We decorate Easter eggs with confectionery topping with our own hands
This is the same as in the previous two versions. Pour the culinary dressing into bowls, grease the eggs with paste, roll, let dry. Not difficult, but eggs look very rich and beautiful.
Decorating Easter eggs with seeds and cereals
Also a very original way to decorate eggs. You will need cereals, what you have, peas, rice, lentils, beans, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, you can sesame seeds, flower vermicelli, etc.
Lubricate the boiled egg with a paste and lay out any ornament from cereals and seeds. Let dry. It turns out very original, interesting and beautiful eggs. See for yourself.
By the way, eggs can even be colored with colored sugar. The technique is the same as that of beads or culinary sprinkling, just smear a boiled egg with a paste and roll in colored sugar. Simple, fast and beautiful!
How to make colored sugar: Take a tight plastic bag or jar, pour sugar into it, drop dye and shake until all the sand is the same color. That's all! And, even such sugar can be used to decorate confectionery. For example, whip cream with colored sugar, it will be beautiful and festive.
We decorate Easter eggs with our own hands using a mosaic
The decorating process is not fast and creative, but it's worth it. The eggs turn out amazing. Here you will need eggshells and always multi-colored. We spread different, beautiful ornaments from the shell of a different color on the painted eggs. See what beauty can be done. Glue with glue.
We make crafts from Easter eggs with our own hands
For such crafts, I propose to invite children and grandchildren to help you, let them help you with their participation. I think they will gladly agree. Boil and color the eggs, prepare everything you need, various stickers, scissors, felt-tip pens, pencils, colored paper, paste, and let's get started.
We make colorful bunnies. We cut out the ears from colored paper, glue or draw, eyes, nose, mouth. Naughty bunnies, ready!
Cute faces with eye and mouth stickers peek out from the egg stand.
The same pretty, but the eyes and mouth can be drawn.
Folk-style stickers are used for these faces. Nice.
And these cute animals are made and glued from colored paper. The eyes are drawn.
I think your children and grandchildren will be very pleased with their results. Of course, there is far from everything that you can think of for decorating eggs with your own hands. But still, a lot of ideas. Take, use, decorate eggs, give joy and kindness to your loved ones.
Well, finishing my article, I want to give a few photos of natural dyes. This is just in case, so that, as they say, it was. And for those people who do not use anything but the nature of products to decorate Easter eggs with their own hands. Christ is risen!
1 - Beets, 2 - hibiscus tea, 3 - spinach, 4 - chokeberry, 5 - blue cabbage, 6 - turmeric
Spring is on the street, which means that soon the whole country will celebrate one of the main Christian holidays - Easter. Both adults and children are looking forward to this bright day, preparing traditional dishes and treats with pleasure. On the eve of the bright Easter holiday, we want to tell you about interesting and unusual, as well as well-known ways to paint eggs.
Since ancient times, it has been customary to exchange painted eggs during the Easter holiday. Since childhood, in many families, relatives came to each other and even played out some kind of battle with eggs. Two people chose their testicles, in their opinion the strongest, and hit them against each other, first with sharp tips, and then with blunt ones - whoever didn’t break an egg during a collision won, taking the opponent’s egg for himself. It was possible to continue this action as long as there are those who want to fight for victory.
According to memories from childhood, painting Easter eggs is a very entertaining activity. The kids so enthusiastically and diligently immerse the eggs in multi-colored solutions, stick stickers, tie them with threads and improvised materials to get spectacular lines and patterns.
All preparations for Easter begin at Clean Thursday , the day when the soul and body are cleansed spiritually and physically. It is not for nothing that Thursday is called clean, according to Christian customs on this day you need to take a good bath, swim in running water, and even better go to the bathhouse. On Good Thursday, in addition to everything else, you need to thoroughly clean up, wash dirty clothes, and scrub everything off, because on the following days before Easter it will be impossible to do household chores.
And, of course, on Maundy Thursday they bake Easter cakes, make Easter, paint eggs.
Have you ever wondered why eggs are dyed for Easter? And do you know what traditional color they should be painted in?
The most beautiful legend says that during the existence of the Roman Empire, in order to get an audience with the emperor, it was required to bring him something as a gift. The rich brought gold, and ordinary people carried everything they had in their households. So, Mary Magdalene, about to inform the ruler Tiberius about the resurrection of Christ, was able to bring as a gift only a white chicken egg with the words: “Christ is Risen!”
Seeing him, the emperor laughed and said that he would believe it if only the egg turned red, and at the same moment the testicle acquired a bloody hue. Then the stunned Tiberius exclaimed: “In truth, He is Risen!”
After that, the traditional color for coloring the testicles became red, purple, and the custom of christening is still known to both old and young.
How to color Easter eggs
onion peel
One of the most popular ways is still considered to be coloring eggs in onion skins. In order to make the testicles even more attractive and pretty, you can press dried leaves, blades of grass against them and tie them with threads, then lowering the husks into the coloring solution. The color can vary from lighter to darker depending on the time the eggs are in the broth.
natural dyes
- brown or beige color will give coffee to the testicles;
- blue color gives red cabbage;
- husks of black sunflower seeds not fried, red onions, poplar catkins, mallow flowers, snowdrops, blueberries and elderberries will give the testicles a blue and purple color;
- eggs will acquire green color by staining in a decoction of spinach leaves, nettle, lily of the valley, primrose, buckthorn bark, ash;
- the testicles will turn pink if they are rubbed with beet juice;
- yellow color will give a decoction of birch leaves, calendula flowers;
- violet flowers will turn the testicles purple.
a light yellow color will turn out if you rub boiled eggs with lemon, orange or carrot juice;
In order for the testicles to stain in the broth, you need to add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to it (into a small saucepan of the solution). Let the broth brew for about 30 minutes and start laying eggs. You need to boil the eggs for 15-30 minutes, depending on what color saturation you want to get, in some cases you can leave the eggs overnight in the solution, for example, when stained with spinach or violet flowers.
You can make different patterns on Easter eggs, wrapping them with an elastic band for money, colored threads, cut out blanks, again tying them with threads. You can dip the egg in water, and then roll in rice, or some other cereal, and wrapped in gauze, boil in a coloring solution.
The marbled effect of the testicles will be obtained if a little vegetable oil is added to the water a minute before the end of cooking, or you can spread already cooked krashenki with it.
Easter food coloring
Probably the easiest way, for those who have no time to bother. As a rule, in small bags there are multi-colored powders that are diluted in boiling water with the addition of a spoonful of vinegar. Our testicles are placed in this solution for 5-15 minutes, depending on what color intensity you want to get.
Thermal stickers for testicles
Easy, fast and convenient way to decorate your eggs for Easter. You can apply the film on pre-boiled and painted eggs, or on ordinary white or brown ones.
Decorating testicles with cereals and improvised means
Very unusual testicles are obtained if they are pasted over with cereals, while still drawing various patterns. Try to paint the egg with wax crayons, and then color it - you get an original design. Another idea is to wrap the eggs with insulating tape and paint in this form, the output will be beautiful smooth lines, or any word or sign that you stick.
Decoupage technique
First you need to prepare a gelatinous mass, a kind of glue. Then take a beautiful napkin with your favorite picture or ornament, or flower. Cut out a fragment and press it against our testicle, and apply a layer of gelatin glue on top. Let dry and enjoy the beauty of your creation.
Coloring testicles with felt-tip pens, markers, paints
Inventive and non-standard people can prepare such eggs for Easter.
And the kids will definitely like eggs in the form of their favorite characters. The children themselves will be happy to color them, dry them and admire their work.
Coloring testicles with fabrics
Eggs dyed with a variety of fabrics look very expensive and uncomplicated. In order for the pattern to move from the fabric to the egg, you need to tightly wrap the raw egg with a cloth (front side), and tie it with elastic bands, or simply stitch it, making a few stitches along the edges so that everything does not slip during the cooking process.
Then boil in water for about 10-15 minutes, with the addition of a spoonful of vinegar. After putting in cold water, carefully remove the fabric and evaluate the resulting masterpiece.
Here are some beautiful testicles obtained after dyeing with fabrics
Permanent makeup for testicles
The original way, which requires only a little patience, skill and a marker. Put the egg on a special stand and display the most beautiful patterns either according to the scheme or to your taste.
Foil, confetti, beads - egg decorations
Fashion does not stand still, now eggs are not only painted, but simply wrapped in colored foil, beads, sequins, confetti and other bells and whistles are glued, and hand-made eggs are obtained.
Patterns on eggs with sweet powder, varnish, paints
Cute and not too hard to make the testicles fresher and more fun, you can use a variety of squiggles, flowers, sticks, specks, dots and other patterns. It all depends on the flight of your imagination. Easy to color with a toothpick.
And adorable testicles
Cut and pasted fabric patterns
The testicles, which are pasted over with fabric flowers, pieces, look very cute and cozy. They are so soft and warm to the touch that it is even a pity to break them later.
Another option for testicles for children
But in this way you can unusually hang the testicles, it looks almost like a Christmas tree, even more beautiful.
Choose from this variety of ways to decorate testicles the most suitable for you, experiment, because creating is always so pleasant and exciting.
Recommendations and tips for boiling eggs, preparing eggs for dyeing
- 1 hour before the start of cooking, testicles stored in the refrigerator must be pulled out and allowed to lie at room temperature. Then your testicles will not crack when cooked;
- another option is to gently pierce the shell of a raw egg with a thin needle. In this case, the egg will not burst in boiling water;
- wash and rub the testicles, you can use a soft sponge, you can use a soapy cloth. This is necessary so that the layer of paint lies as evenly as possible on the egg;
- in the water where the eggs are boiled, add a couple of tablespoons of salt - again, it will help from possible cracks, and the shell then peels off better when cleaned;
- before painting, eggs can be rubbed with vinegar, so they will absorb dyes more intensively;
- at the end, for a glossy effect, you can lightly rub the testicles with vegetable oil.
Some kind of bright feeling reigns in the soul when you are preparing for Easter, the feeling that everything will be fine. May there always be love and happiness, health and joy, comfort and prosperity in your home! Happy Easter to you!
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