Onion Skin Eggs

MelsAuntie

When I was a kid, my family tradition for Easter eggs was to color the eggs with onion skins. You save up the skins from yellow onions (red onion skins don't work, strangely) and when you hard-boil your eggs, add about four cups of onion skins to the pot. The eggs don't actually absorb any onion flavor but they turn a rich russet brown. Is this a German-American thing, or does anyone else remember this?

pennydreadful270

Never heard of that. We roll our eggs here though. You paint them, find the biggest hill you can to roll them down. Then you run after them and eat them. Watch out for cow pats.

yanniejannie

I googled "onion skin dye" and tons of stuff came up...........maybe your answer is there somewhere. I am mostly German and never heard of it; however my artsy cousin used onion skins to dye materials she used for macarme (spelling?)..........

SandraJN

I haven't heard of it, but I leave the onions in their skin when I make stock. The skin gives the stock a beautiful color.