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Hard Cooked Eggs

Posted on April 3, 2024 by nina in the kitchen

Christopher Kimball from Milk Street shared his method of hard boiling eggs which guarantee easy to peel eggs! It works perfectly!

The length of cooking time makes the orange yolk which is also creamy. This is the French style he learned in Paris

Check your eggs closely for cracks before you cook them! Don’t over crowd the eggs. Knocking eggs together while they boil may crack them

Ingredients

6-12 large eggs
1 large pot of boiling water
1 large bowl of ice water with lots of ice

Instructions

Choose eggs which don’t have cracks
Bring a large pot of water to a boil
Gently place the eggs in the water. Use a slotted spoon to set them in the water
Bring to a full boil. Boil for 8 minutes 40 seconds! No longer!
With a strainer or slotted spoon remove the eggs from the boiling water and place them in ice water. Leave the eggs in the ice water 3 minutes
Remove eggs from ice water and set them aside for Easter egg coloring or peeling to eat. They will peel easily and perfectly!

Voila!

Russian Orthodox Easter Eggs

Posted on April 24, 2016 by nina in the kitchen

My grandmother was Russian Orthodox and she was from Belarus. She made these types of colored Easter eggs with dried yellow onion skins. Her technique was to combine cooked eggs and onion skins in a large pot of water and then soak them for several hours.

I like to give the eggs a marble look and also at the same time cook the raw eggs with the yellow onion skins.

Wrap medium to large pieces of dried skins from yellow onions around each egg in varying degrees of cover to make patterns.
Secure skins by wrapping further with string. Don’t tie too tight.
Place eggs in a large pot in a single layer with not too much crowding.
Add water and cover the eggs by 2 inches.
Cover pot and bring to a boil.
Turn heat to the lowest possible level.
Cook 20 minutes.
Remove from heat and let the color absorb for 1 and 1/2 hours or so.
Drain, dry and voila!
A quicker technique is to not wrap the onion skins and only combine them in the pot.
As Grandma Korzin would say at Easter in Russian “He is Risen!”