How Do You Decorate Easter Eggs The Old-Fashioned Way?
Would you like to color Easter eggs the old-fashioned way? I remember as a child out in the Flint hills of Kansas during the thirties we colored eggs for Easter. We had to think ahead to that special day because we didn’t have commercial egg coloring back then. My folks raised chickens and kept a few laying hens just for our own eggs. So we would save eggs for Mother to hard-boil and then we would color them in rainbow hues to be hid on the prairie on Easter morning. Go to the chicken house and gather the eggs. Mother’s White Rock hens laid white eggs that were best for coloring. Mother relied on Mother Nature a lot to obtain colors for our eggs by saving juice from cooked beets to make various shades of pink and red colored eggs. Yellow onion skins were steeped in hot water to produce a gorgeous yellow shade and the longer the egg remained in the colored water the darker it would get. Wild elderberries provided a juice that was a deep purple and a wet green leaf wrapped around an egg
