When I was a child, the common item for egg hunts was, you know it, decorated boiled eggs. Sure, a few families and kids would have the fancy treats of chocolate eggs or marshmallow covered in chocolate eggs, but a huge percentage if not the entirety of the egg hunt targets were decorated boiled chicken eggs.
The Easter holiday always involved an egg hunt at school, another one at church, possibly a community egg hunt, and then the family egg hunt at my grandma and grandpa’s home.
The Easter holiday always involved an egg hunt at school, another one at church, possibly a community egg hunt, and then the family egg hunt at my grandma and grandpa’s home.
The aunts and uncles would get all the kids together inside with one adult charged with not only keeping them there, but with the authority to dispose of any that attempted to get an upper hand by looking out of a window and seeing where the other adults were hiding the eggs.
My dear mother made all of this the better by her excellent decorating skills. She was able to take the lowly boiled egg and transform it into a work of art. By adding other shaped items of construction paper, that egg might become the image of the head of some well-known personality of just an animated version of a character.
My dear mother made all of this the better by her excellent decorating skills. She was able to take the lowly boiled egg and transform it into a work of art. By adding other shaped items of construction paper, that egg might become the image of the head of some well-known personality of just an animated version of a character.
She turned eggs into all sorts of un-egg like characters and items. There might be a few that she assisted my sister and I in dipping in food coloring and simply decorating by that method, but there was always a select group of eggs that underwent transformation by her hand.
Those prize eggs we cherished and did not want to lose them due to someone else finding them in the egg hunt. If memory serves me correct, she allowed us to set a few aside. Those would remain at home and be ours to keep.
No matter the bounty taken during the hunts, my sister and I would continue to hide and hunt for eggs for days to come. Eggs would get hidden and found repeatedly, with an occasional egg being devoured. For those unaware, the shelf life of a hard-boiled egg is not as long as it should be. I don’t recall either of us getting sick, but I am certain that we thoroughly tested our immune system.
When eggs are dyed by the food coloring method, on occasion the food coloring will penetrate the shell and discolor the white of the egg. That was to be expected and was not an alarm.
No matter the bounty taken during the hunts, my sister and I would continue to hide and hunt for eggs for days to come. Eggs would get hidden and found repeatedly, with an occasional egg being devoured. For those unaware, the shelf life of a hard-boiled egg is not as long as it should be. I don’t recall either of us getting sick, but I am certain that we thoroughly tested our immune system.
When eggs are dyed by the food coloring method, on occasion the food coloring will penetrate the shell and discolor the white of the egg. That was to be expected and was not an alarm.
As time progressed one might find an egg that had been missed during an earlier hunt or had been in the system for an extended period of time. When the shell was removed it would be discovered that there was a green coloration.
Looking at the shell it was evident that green had not been a tint that was used when coloring the egg. That should have been a warning. But let’s throw caution aside at least once and give this thing a try.
It turns out that red meat is not bad for you, green meat, or eggs or certain other food items is bad for you! I am always on the alert and suspect when eating a salad!
It turns out that red meat is not bad for you, green meat, or eggs or certain other food items is bad for you! I am always on the alert and suspect when eating a salad!
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