Easter Egg Dye (#1826)

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Ingredients

  • 1/4 tsp Food Coloring
  • 3/4 cup Water boiling, for each color
  • 1 Tbsp Vinegar for each color

Directions

  1. For each color, measure food color, water and vinegar into bowl about size of a cereal bowl. Mix well with spoon, use separate spoon for each color.
  2. To make orange dye, mix equal amounts of red and yellow. To make purple dye, mix blue and red. To make green dye, mix blue and yellow.
  3. Following each color listed below, you will find the number of drops of each food coloring to be added to about 2 to 4 ounces of vinegar for dipping.
  4. Lime - 24 yellow, 4 green
  5. Pretty purple - 15 blue, 5 red
  6. Cantaloupe - 24 yellow, 2 red
  7. Jade - 17 green, 3 blue
  8. Plum - 10 red, 4 blue
  9. Spearmint - 12 green, 6 yellow, 2 blue
  10. Raspberry - 14 red, 6 blue
  11. Maize - 24 yellow, 1 red
  12. Watermelon - 25 red, 2 blue
  13. Teal - 15 green, 5 blue
  14. Grape - 17 blue, 3 red
  15. Fuchsia - 18 red, 2 blue
  16. Orange sunset - 17 yellow, 3 red
  17. Jungle mint green - 14 green, 6 yellow
  18. To make larger volumes, just keep the ratio the same (for example, lime is 24 parts yellow to 4 parts green; a ratio of 6 to 1).
  19. See the link below this recipe for a larger selection of an easter food coloring chart.
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