CORRESPONDENCE

Grey River Argus, 9 April 1927, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE

EASTER EGGS. (To the Editor.) Sir, —In report of my reminiscence: of Pasch Eggs (pronounced Pace) appearing in Friday’s issue, 1 could not have expressed myself clearly to your reporter, as the method of colouration was described wrongly. The eggs were coloured in the process of boiling, not afterwards. The eggs were tied singly in a piece of cloth, with a small portion of granulated dye: indigo, magenta, yellow, etc., etc., one dye to each egg; or onion peel acts as a dye, giving a variegated brown, without any other dye. The pleasure to the kiddies lay principally in counting the eggs of the neighbours which were all displayed competitively on the window frames of the front windows, both up stairs and downstairs (all houses abutted on the footpath, and were twostoried, in those mining towns). I’ll guarantee your “homey” readers at Runanga will be able to give you more information about it. My recollections end at twelve years of age. Also about those hot cross buns. TheFTocal bakers don’t do it right. They mostly serve; up just ordinary buns, without the cross on, and where any spice is in, it is usually only a strong cinnamon flavour. I would like to see some of your Runanga readers write and tell them now to do it.—Yours, etc.,