EASTER EGGS FOR BREAKFAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 88, 15 April 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

EASTER EGGS FOR BREAKFAST.

LET'S DECORATE OURS

Small people in France and Belgium have a quaint and jolly custom of decorating in a most novel fashion the eggs they have for breakfast on Easter Sunday or Monday morning. Peter Pan suggests his little friends will have much fun if they, too, decorate in the manner explained below some eggs for Easter.

Suppose, for instance, you decided you would like boiled eggs to have green shells. Take a handful of parsley and put it in water, leaving it there for a full day. Use this parsley water when boiling the eggs, and they will appear on the table a beautiful green. A light red hue is provided hy boiling the eggs in vinegar, containiijg the flesh of a mashed beetroot. Yellow shells may be obtained by addiug onion skins to the water. Incidentally no unpleasant flavour will be imparted to- the eggs themselves.

Most little folk would love to have their names engraved on the egga they have for breakfast. To do this, simply write your name on the egg-shell with a brush dipped in melted lard. Allow the lard to harden and then immerse the eggs for half an hour in vinegar. At the end of this time the acid will have eaten slightly into the shells, everywhere but where the lard acted as a protection. Your name will therefore stand up in relief.

In this column is published an illustration showfhg something very special

in the way of Easter eggs. Choose a very white egg, make a small hole in each end and blow out the contents. Carefully tracc the oblong pattern given in the illustration on a piece of tissue paper. Cut a small strip of transfer paper and smooth it over the surface of the egg, the. dark side down. Then place the tissue paper pattern over it and hold it firmly with one hand while you trace the features with the other. Afterwards you may go over the lines you have marked on the eggshell.

The white hair is made with a little cotton wool.- Cut a piece just large enough to cover the top and the back of the head. Brush with glue the part of the egg to be covered, letting it come down on the forehead over the lines marked for the hair. Take a needle and white thread and sew back and forth through the cotton wool on top, pulling it slightly up to form a knot.

For the ruff cut a piece of white tissue paper six inches wide and about 24 inches long. Fold down the centre. Gather the cut edges with a needle' and thread, and press the folds together with the fingers. Drop a little glue on the inside of the gathered edges and press grandmother's chin down upon it. Peter Pan suggests little folk should call in the assistance of big brothers and sisters in the making of this novel Easter egg.