Sue's Diner: Homemade Dye for Easter Eggs (Again)

Once again we are sharing our recipes for homemade food dye for Easer Eggs.

This recipe is not featured in any of the BryonySeries cookbooks, including Memories in the Kitchen: Bites and Nibbles from "Bryony," which is a permanent fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Will and Grundy Counties and features all the recipes referenced in the novel Bryony. 

However, we are sharing these recipes with you on the Sue's Diner page on the BryonySeries website.

But try them this week. They will be gone next week. A new recipe will take it's place. 

We do not have a good recipe for green dye. But Timothy came up with this work-around a few years ago, which we shared on this post last year.

For more photos, check out this story I wrote for The Herald-News in 2019 on the same topic (and a couple more at the bottom of this blog, which are showing up way better here than on the website). 

If you have any troubleshooting questions or comments, email us at bryonyseries@gmail.com. 

And have fun! 

By the way, Sue's Diner is only real in the BryonySeries world. But didn't Timothy do a great job making the page look like a real menu at a vintage diner?

Here is the full diner page: bryonyseries.com/sue-s-diner. You can't really order, of course (wouldn't it be great if you could?).

For more BryonySeries recipes, check out our three cookbooks at our BryonySeries bryonyseries.com/general-store.

It's Not Easy Dyeing Eggs Green (Here's How)

If you've check out our homemade Easter egg dyes on the BryonySeries website this week, you've noticed we don't have a recipe for green.

Apparently green dye is not easily made with food. And the internet is apparently not much help.

But Timothy figured it out. So if you want to dye Easter eggs green, naturally and from food, follow his directions.

First, prepare the dyes according to the directions on the BryonySeries "Recipe of the Week" on the Sue's Diner page.

Green: 

1) Take hard-boiled egg and dip into the yellow dye for a couple seconds.

2) And then dip into the blue dye for a couple seconds.

3) Then back into the yellow for about five minutes.

4) Then into the blue for a minute or two.

5) And then go back to the yellow for a couple minutes.

6) And back to the blue for a minute. 

7) Panic because it's not turning green. 

8) Pray and dip it into orange. Watch in terror as it turns into a dark, sad color. 

9) And dip into yellow to try to lighten it up. At this point, it's the color of smog. 

10) Go back to blue for a minute. Dip it into the orange, then the blue, and finish with yellow. 

Congratulations! You've beaten the internet. 

Sue's Diner: Homemade Dye for Easter Eggs

Sue's Diner was temporarily closed due to illness (Rebekah and I were sick and didn't wind up cooking anything for the page), but we are feeling better each day. 

No, we didnt't have COVID, at least according to the tests we took (one rapid, one PCR apiece).

This week's recipe is actually several recipes, all for creating your own Easter egg dyes from food.

We will be leaving this recipe on the Sue's Diner page for two weeks, in honor of both dates of Easter (Eastern Christians will celebrate April 24).

For more photos, check out this story I wrote for The Herald-News in 2019 on the same topic.

And have fun! 

By the way, Sue's Diner is only real in the BryonySeries world. But didn't Timothy do a great job making the page look like a real menu at a vintage diner?

Here is the full diner page: bryonyseries.com/sue-s-diner. You can't really order, of course (wouldn't it be great if you could?).

For more BryonySeries recipes, check out our three cookbooks at our BryonySeries bryonyseries.com/general-store.

BryonySeries Throwback Thursday: A Victorian Home Decorated For Easter

Sunday, March 27, 2016

A Victorian Home Decorated For Easter