Re: Help! Young Kids Always being fed Junk

enigma wrote:
Ericka Kammerer <eek@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Chookie wrote:

In article <OcKdnUkrV9HghV7eRVn-pA@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ericka Kammerer <eek@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



   Also, aren't the eggs for pysanki blown out
rather than hard boiled?  Or is that just for the ones
you want to keep?


Not as far as I know -- the only ones I've seen have been
intact. The traditional designs rely on the top and
bottom points of the egg being intact. Normally the eggs
are hard-boiled, and eaten on Easter Sunday and after. My
Dad remembers playing something like conkers with them
during the NEP -- tap the eggs against each other and see
whose cracks last. 

    Hmm...the only pysanky eggs I've seen have been
blown.  I can't imagine why anyone would go through all
that work for something that is only going to last a
couple of days before they get cracked and eaten.  I
know a few folks who do pysanky, and they all blow the
eggs and keep them from year to year.  Certainly all
the ones I've ever seen for sale were empty.


they don't have to be blown... eggs do dry up eventually (just don't break one that's in the process <g>) & i think dried shells might be a wee bit sturdier than blown shells.
egg shells are porous, chicken eggs moreso than duck or goose eggs. if you use supermarket eggs they've already had the natural protective coating washed off them & they'll dry faster than home grown eggs that aren't washed (ever wonder why grandma could leave eggs sitting out on the counter & not get sick? because the eggs weren't washed).
or you can just blow the eggs if you don't mind holes in the shells & like scrambled eggs... 

	One wonders, however, what the process of waxing
and dyeing might do the permeability of the shell.  Still,
even in that case, one would work with a raw egg rather
than hard boiling them first.  As I said, though, all the
eggs I've seen for sale (and the ones that my friends
have done) have been blown, which doesn't
really create a problem since they usually attach some
way of hanging the egg to cover the small hole.

Best wishes,
Ericka
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