#82 My Natural Color

My Grandma (we called her Oma) would always have Easter eggs that were colored a deep rusty brown. As a kid I never thought twice about them, I just knew they were a lot different than the brightly colored ones we had. It wasn't until I was a little older that I realized she would color her eggs using yellow onion skins, the same way they had always done in Germany. So for Easter I colored eggs using natural ingredients. In order to do this you need to add the ingredients right in the water as you hard boil them. I first tried using frozen raspberries which didn't work at all. Then I used yellow onion skins combined with some tumeric to get the golden yellow colored eggs in the photo below. Then I used ground coffee to get the tan colored ones. Here's an article that I used as a guide.