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Our street has half and half, a church family, a mosque family, a church family, and everyone dyes eggs in April :) My neighbour Aunt Maria showed me the old way, no paint from the shop. Onion skins, a lot of them, and the eggs go deep red-brown like a chestnut horse.

Boil the skins of 8-10 onions in 1 litre of water, 20 minutes. Put the eggs into the cold coloured water, boil 10 minutes. For the pattern press a leaf of parsley on the egg, hold it with a piece of old stocking, and tie. The leaf stays white.

On the day the children play jumurtka chokush: two eggs knock together, the one that cracks loses and the winner takes the cracked egg. My nephew has a hard egg and he cheats, I am sure, but I do not know how.