Make your own ‘Pace’ eggs
Pace is a shortened version of the word "Paschal” — from a Greek word — itself taken from a Hebrew word for the Passover.
“Pace eggs”: was the name given to eggs which were dyed with scraps of coloured cloth. Eggs were wrapped like parcels in scraps of gaily-coloured materials, then boiled for half an hour. After the water had
cooled, the materials were removed and a pattern emerged. 1 You can make your own — and if you haven’t any materials you . can always use gift or crepe paper pieces. Another way is to wrap leaves around the egg shell — a fern leaf works well but remember to place the veined side of the leaf against the egg. Make sure your “par-
cel’’ — and whatever you use to wrap it with — is well tied, or the experiment will not work. String will do the trick.
Put your eggs in a pot of cold water, then boil gently in your pot for 10 minutes. Let the eggs cool. They can be polished with oil, if you have any spare, and then kept in the fridge until Easter when they can be given to friends and family.
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Press, 8 March 1988, Page 14
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