Onion Skin Marble Eggs
Marbling eggs is easy with leftover onion skins
Servings 3
Calories
Cost 3
Ingredients
- 4 pieces onion skin
- 1 large egg
- 1 tbsp white vinegar
- 3 quarts water
- 1 teaspoon Sunflower oil or other unflavored oil
Instructions
- Cut the cheesecloth so that it will tightly fit around the egg and can be secured with a binder clip.
- Put the cheesecloth in the palm of your hand. Then gather a few pieces of onion skin and put that on the cheesecloth.
- Put an egg on top of the onion skin and top it with more onion skins.
- Bring the cheesecloth up and around, being sure that all the egg is covered with a piece of onion skin. Close the top, twist it, and secure it with the binder clip.
- Fill a saucepan with water. Add the vinegar. Carefully lower the eggs into the water.
- Cover the pan and put the heat on high. When the water comes to a boil, let it boil for 2 minutes then take the pot off the heat. Let it sit, covered for 20 minutes.
- Remove the eggs from the water and let them sit to cool until you can handle them.
- Carefully remove the cheesecloth and onion skins. Let them sit for about 5 or 10 minutes to dry then use a cotton ball dipped in oil to oil the eggs and make them shiny. Put them in a nice basket.
- Be sure to eat them or refrigerate them in at least two hours. Enjoy!
Notes
You can use pantyhose just as easily as cheesecloth or any thin white fabric.