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Truly dye tricks and tips for the perfect and natural Easter egg
Statistically, a German eats an average of 200 eggs a year. Especially at Easter eggs are on everyone's lips. So that nothing goes wrong at the big party breakfast, attention should be paid to the correct storage in advance. You can dye the colorful Easter eggs with natural ingredients.
So that nothing goes wrong at the Easter breakfast
At Easter, eggs are traditionally booming. The question of whether to buy colorful Easter eggs or to dye itself, is often in favor of making your own. There are many ways to dye them in a natural way. According to health experts, you do not have to worry much about cholesterol: three eggs are okay at Easter. In a message from the news agency dpa some tricks and tips are summarized, with which the eggs succeed very well. This should not go wrong at the big Easter breakfast.
For Easter usually come colorfully colored Easter eggs on the table. Experts give tips on how to store and dye properly. (Image: Pixelot / fotolia.com) Store with the pointed end down
Although it is widespread: eggs should not be deterred. With the cold water, bacteria can enter the ice through fine cracks in the shell, warned the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture. Eggs are best stored in the egg compartment of the refrigerator - with the tip end down, then they last longer. This advises the initiative "Too good for the ton!" Of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). In this way, the air chamber is up. If they are stored the other way around, it can happen that the bubble eventually rises, thereby detaching the egg skin and infecting germs.
Baking without eggs
If vegans come over to eat, or eat egg allergies, can also be baked vegan. As the Vegetarian Union Germany (Vebu) explained, egg can be replaced by flaxseed. This fits, among other things to wholemeal biscuits. Two tablespoons of ground flaxseed mixed with three tablespoons of water replace one egg. To bake cakes offer bananas. A fruit replaces two eggs. Crush the banana and stir in the dough. Another alternative is applesauce: Three spoons of it replace an egg. It is very suitable for muffins and moist doughs. The apple flavor is largely lost during baking.
Coloring easter eggs yourself
Since colored Easter eggs often lack the list of ingredients, if customers who want to know which dye was used and whether the eggs are coated with a protective varnish, ask the best in the business, advises consumers initiative. The sellers need to know the exact ingredients or at least be able to look them up. As the initiative "Germany - My Garden" emphasized, Easter eggs can also be easily dyed. For this you choose - depending on the color - suitable vegetables and crushed them. 200 grams of it are then mixed with a liter of water and a tablespoon of vinegar. Simmer for half an hour. Ingredients such as spinach or parsley color the eggs green, carrots for orange and red beets and red cabbage for red.
Organic or free range products
Already with the purchase one should pay attention to select eggs with a smooth shell, if they are to be colored later. Because that's the best way to stick the color, as reported by the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture. In addition, the colors in eggs with white shell are clearer than brown shells. The color of the eggshell has no influence on taste, nutrients or vitamins. The composition and quality of the feed, however, have an effect on the quality of the eggs. For this reason, and also to preserve nature and the environment as possible, it is advised to buy eggs preferably from organic or free range. (Ad)