not much text today - just pix from my "easter nests" (didn't work quite as planned, the yeast dough grew a bit too much and closed the holes for the eggs:)) but they tasted lovely as did the easter yeast plait....
we also dyed our traditional easter eggs. we used the liquid food dyes from the supermarket for the first time and they worked very well. I used 2 tbsp of dye in a glass, added 2-3 tbsp of vinegar and filled up with cold water. I boiled the eggs and dumped them hot for 2-3 min. in the dye - lovely strong colours, even though 1/2 blue and 1/2 red ended up in a rather brownish purple:)) and the yellow looks more orange - on the brown eggs (for some reason I cannot buy white eggs over here!)
because there was so much dye left I grabbed some superwash top, plaited it up and sprinkled all the dyes on top of it. after I set the dyes in a turkey bag in the oven - I rinsed them out, no dye loss whatsoever. the top looks very autumnal - but I found out that the green dye unblended gives exactly the strong green I was looking for to dye some lace yarn! so off to the supermarket next week to stock up on a few bottles of green:)) and the top - might end up as sock wool.....
off to eat some waffle eggs (no easter cake this year, I couldn't be bothered - too much else to do!).... Happy Easter to everybody!
5 comments:
Happy Easter Bettina. Lovely colours on the eggs - similar here but the eggs were plastic and there was candy inside.
Love the fiber idea to use up the rest of the dye! Beautiful loaves of bread.
Your eggs look lovely and vibrant Bettina. I wonder what the green food dye was that gave you the colour you liked so much.
Hallo Bettina,
oh, sieht gut aus. Jetzt kann ich mir auch dein Hefegebäck vorstellen :)
Flüssige Ostereierfarben - kenne ich jetzt gar nicht.
Gruß
Juliana
Helen - the company is called goodall's, apparently irish. the contents on the bottle state: tartrazine E102, green S E142 and acid (acetic). they even have a homepage, but funnily enough can only be contacted by snailmail:)) I was going to ask if they do larger bottles than 25 ml, but I suppose those would only sell well to dyers:)) they do state however that you can not only dye icing and other food with it, but that some people even dye wool with their product:))
Juliana, die farben sind eigentlich nicht als "eierfarben" beschildert, es sind lebensmittelfarben. der nachteil ist, dass sie evtl. zutaten stark verduennen - ich kenne viele baecker, die trockene farbpulver bevorzugen - aber fuer die eier machte es keinen unterschied und fuer anderes essen benutze ich nur sehr, sehr selten farbstoffe....
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