Greek Egg Dye

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Don’t know if anyone can help me here, I don’t know if Eastern Catholics do this as well, or just Eastern Orthodox.

The Greek Easter Eggs! They’re bright red and much better than what PAAS can produce. I’ve heard there’s dye available from ‘my local Greek Deli’, but there aren’t any around here. I’m hesitent to buy the 15 onions required for the ‘natural’ method.

Where do y’all get your dye? I can’t find any online.
 
Here’s what I use, just order a couple packets or red and have at it! Lett us know how they turn out.
 
I would just order the dye online. I’m sure any Greek shop online would have it. If you want to try something more intricate try pysanky.
 
Try googling pysanky supplies. There is an online store called the Ukrainian Gift Shop (I’d post the link but my bookmark is MIA) that sells the dyes individually. You want the color they call crimson. If you make it in a mason jar and store it in a dark place you should be able to use it several years.
 
What are you using the eggs for? Are they to eat on Paska?

If so, DO NOT USE PYSANKY DYES FOR HARD BOILED EGGS !!!

THEY ARE TOXIC!

You need to get the edible dyes that are specially made for this purpose.

You can go to www.hanuseys.com and order edible pysanky dyes.

Using onion skins will give you more of burnt orange/dark brown shade of egg. You really don’t need 15 onions either. You can use a handful onion skins, wrap them in cheese cloth and soak them in about a cup and half of boiling water. Before dying the eggs, add a tablespoon of WHITE vinegar.

You can do the same thing with beet juice but it must be much stronger to get a good shade.

You can get good colors from the McCormick food dyes as well. You can go to their website and look at the color chart. If I remember correctly, for a good red it was 1 cup water, 2 tbs of WHITE VINEGAR and 20 drops of red dye.

Hope this helps…

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Patchunky said:
What are you using the eggs for? Are they to eat on Paska?

If so, DO NOT USE PYSANKY DYES FOR HARD BOILED EGGS !!!

THEY ARE TOXIC!

You need to get the edible dyes that are specially made for this purpose.

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He’s right…we don’t eat our pysanky so that’s something I don’t think about. Sorry about that.😊
 
It’s a bit late, but I use RIT Scarlet. Good color, and nobody’s gotten sick (in my family, or any of the congregations with which I’ve been associated in the last 15 years). Of course the eggs need to be polished with olive oil once they’ve dried. . . .
 
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