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How To Boil Easter Eggs - March 2019
Dyeing boiled eggs for Easter is an old fashioned idea in 2019, but it's a fun and frugal way to celebrate Easter without going overboard on the chocolates.
Setting aside some time to boil and then decorate eggs with your children can be a fun way to spend time together, away from screens, without spending a fortune, just because you can.
But before you decorate the eggs, you need to boil them. That sounds simple, but there is a skill to a good hard-boiled egg. It's not difficult, but worth taking the time to follow these steps:
1. Put the eggs in the saucepan - make sure it's big enough to hold all the eggs without layering them up on top of one another. I use a milk saucepan and stand the eggs in a circle, with one in the centre. The saucepan holds seven large eggs, resting against each other.
2. Fill the saucepan with enough water so that there's at least 25mm above the eggs.
3. Cover with a lid and bring to a boil over a medium heat.
4. Once the water reaches a full boil, remove from the heat but keep the lid on the pan.
5. Now keep the eggs in the pan for another 15-18 minutes (or longer for larger eggs).
6. Drain and cool the eggs in ice water. Keep them in the water until they've cooled completely before using them. If you don't want to use them at this point, keep them refrigerated until you're ready.
How To Stop The Eggs From Cracking
One of the biggest problems is knowing how to boil Easter eggs without cracking them. If you follow the instructions above then cracking shouldn't be too much of a problem. But if you want to be extra safe then here are a few tips.
* Let the eggs reach room temperature before you cook them,
* Don't pour boiling water over the eggs - start with the water cold,
* Don't add too many eggs at once (to avoid them bouncing together) or stack them as I mentioned above,
* If you really want to be extra safe then you can wrap each egg in a piece of pantyhose to stop them banging together.
What To Do Next
Now you know how to boil Easter eggs, you can use them for decorating with a number of methods. This could mean dyeing them, letting your children colour them with wax crayons, or anything else. Having the eggs hard boiled in advance will make it easy to bring them out of the refrigerator once you and your kids are ready to do the decorating!
And of course, this method of boiling eggs isn't just for Easter. Keeping hard-boiled eggs in the fridge for snacks, sandwiches and salads means they're always ready to use when you need them.
Setting aside some time to boil and then decorate eggs with your children can be a fun way to spend time together, away from screens, without spending a fortune, just because you can.
But before you decorate the eggs, you need to boil them. That sounds simple, but there is a skill to a good hard-boiled egg. It's not difficult, but worth taking the time to follow these steps:
1. Put the eggs in the saucepan - make sure it's big enough to hold all the eggs without layering them up on top of one another. I use a milk saucepan and stand the eggs in a circle, with one in the centre. The saucepan holds seven large eggs, resting against each other.
2. Fill the saucepan with enough water so that there's at least 25mm above the eggs.
3. Cover with a lid and bring to a boil over a medium heat.
4. Once the water reaches a full boil, remove from the heat but keep the lid on the pan.
5. Now keep the eggs in the pan for another 15-18 minutes (or longer for larger eggs).
6. Drain and cool the eggs in ice water. Keep them in the water until they've cooled completely before using them. If you don't want to use them at this point, keep them refrigerated until you're ready.
How To Stop The Eggs From Cracking
One of the biggest problems is knowing how to boil Easter eggs without cracking them. If you follow the instructions above then cracking shouldn't be too much of a problem. But if you want to be extra safe then here are a few tips.
* Let the eggs reach room temperature before you cook them,
* Don't pour boiling water over the eggs - start with the water cold,
* Don't add too many eggs at once (to avoid them bouncing together) or stack them as I mentioned above,
* If you really want to be extra safe then you can wrap each egg in a piece of pantyhose to stop them banging together.
What To Do Next
Now you know how to boil Easter eggs, you can use them for decorating with a number of methods. This could mean dyeing them, letting your children colour them with wax crayons, or anything else. Having the eggs hard boiled in advance will make it easy to bring them out of the refrigerator once you and your kids are ready to do the decorating!
And of course, this method of boiling eggs isn't just for Easter. Keeping hard-boiled eggs in the fridge for snacks, sandwiches and salads means they're always ready to use when you need them.
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