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Article: The old way of coloring eggs is as natural as an onion skin
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 28, 1988
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The coloring of eggs for Easter began with the early Christians
of Mesopotamia. However, the custom of giving colored eggs as gifts
started with the ancient Egyptians and Persians.
Modern egg dyes began a hundred years ago in a drugstore in
Newark, N. J. Druggist William Townley, besieged by the mothers of
the town to sell such dyes as onion-skin yellow and walnut brown as
egg dyes, started packaging the dyes. This was the beginning of the
Paas Dye Co. and its Easter egg coloring kits.
If you wish to return to the old way of coloring eggs, you can
achieve some beautiful effects by using onion skins. Place a layer
of onion peels on a thin, dampened 5-inch square of cloth (sheeting
is ...
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