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bunnyjadwiga) wrote2005-03-22 05:19 pm
bunnyjadwiga) wrote2005-03-22 05:19 pm
Easter Eggs
Well, Monday night I paid my debt to society for the season.
I hadn't colored eggs yet for the Equinox. Hm, says I, I should do that. I should do the fun colored eggs. I should color eggs with natural dyes. Hey, tonight's the shire meeting. We can all color eggs with natural dyes ... So I let the A&S mistress and the Kingdom A&S mistress and my friend Sarah know about my plans, went home, packed up the electric 2 burner, my previously-unused stainless steel pot set, and a selection of dyes-- brazilwood, madder, saffron, saunders, cochineal. I also brought supplies for making gingerbrede in the vain hope I'd be able to do that TOO. Stopped at the grocery and bought eggs, onion peels, and red cabbage.
Got to practice, set up my little stove, started boiling cabbage and water with brazilwood. Told people I would be dyeing eggs. Collected my onion skins. Got some attention from some young ladies. Put some eggs in the brazillwood mix, and put eggs, etc. in the pot with the onion skins. Walked away for five minutes. Realized the little stove had turned itself off. Gah. Figured it was a fuse. Chased toddlers out of kitchen of site. Tried various ways to get stove to work again. No luck. We can't use the site's stove, so I tried several ways to boil the eggs. Using the coffepot setup. Putting the pots in the bottom of a 450 degree electric roaster. Etc.
We didn't get the eggs hard boiled, but they sure looked pretty. We did cochineal, brazilwood, red cabbage (makes robin's egg blue), tumeric (makes yellow or orange), onionskins (makes orange to mahogany red), and combinations thereof. I had 4 little girls 'helping' ranging from age 4 to age 10, and one little boy at a difficult age that I had to remove several times because I don't mind working with kids but when I say, "Don't touch that please, it's dangerous" they have to a) not touch it and b) not throw a temper tantrum.
The young ladies had a wonderful time. They really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I'd only brought 2.5 dozen eggs so I didn't have any to take home (next time there will be more, darnit). The kids were amused because I kept burning myself and telling them that that sure was dumb of me, and they of course would be much smarter about it than I was and wouldn't burn themselves... :)
I'm nuts. *grin*
I hadn't colored eggs yet for the Equinox. Hm, says I, I should do that. I should do the fun colored eggs. I should color eggs with natural dyes. Hey, tonight's the shire meeting. We can all color eggs with natural dyes ... So I let the A&S mistress and the Kingdom A&S mistress and my friend Sarah know about my plans, went home, packed up the electric 2 burner, my previously-unused stainless steel pot set, and a selection of dyes-- brazilwood, madder, saffron, saunders, cochineal. I also brought supplies for making gingerbrede in the vain hope I'd be able to do that TOO. Stopped at the grocery and bought eggs, onion peels, and red cabbage.
Got to practice, set up my little stove, started boiling cabbage and water with brazilwood. Told people I would be dyeing eggs. Collected my onion skins. Got some attention from some young ladies. Put some eggs in the brazillwood mix, and put eggs, etc. in the pot with the onion skins. Walked away for five minutes. Realized the little stove had turned itself off. Gah. Figured it was a fuse. Chased toddlers out of kitchen of site. Tried various ways to get stove to work again. No luck. We can't use the site's stove, so I tried several ways to boil the eggs. Using the coffepot setup. Putting the pots in the bottom of a 450 degree electric roaster. Etc.
We didn't get the eggs hard boiled, but they sure looked pretty. We did cochineal, brazilwood, red cabbage (makes robin's egg blue), tumeric (makes yellow or orange), onionskins (makes orange to mahogany red), and combinations thereof. I had 4 little girls 'helping' ranging from age 4 to age 10, and one little boy at a difficult age that I had to remove several times because I don't mind working with kids but when I say, "Don't touch that please, it's dangerous" they have to a) not touch it and b) not throw a temper tantrum.
The young ladies had a wonderful time. They really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I'd only brought 2.5 dozen eggs so I didn't have any to take home (next time there will be more, darnit). The kids were amused because I kept burning myself and telling them that that sure was dumb of me, and they of course would be much smarter about it than I was and wouldn't burn themselves... :)
I'm nuts. *grin*