I went to the nursing home visit Maw Maw and Paw Paw. They had company there and we all
visited. They had eggs (ouefs) to pock
(paques) with. We talked about that and
then they gave me a history lesson on how eggs were dyed in the past. One way was to use coffee grounds and tea
leaves. Another way was to get a bunch
of leaves from the poc-poc plant and boil the eggs with that. The eggs would come out with a yellowish color. I found the most interesting way was using
old clothes that you didn’t wear anymore.
The dye from the clothes made all kinds of colors. The best way was using old hats. You would boil the eggs with an old colorful
hat in the pot to get really pretty colors.
I busted out laughing at that but it makes sense. Mom and Dad told me one of Mom’s uncles was a
mechanic. For Easter he would bring back
a bunch of mechanic rags to use for dye.
All their eggs were red.