[Sca-cooks] Really Spiffy Decorated Eggs

[Kerri Martinsen]

When I was a kid and we did them, after they were decorated mom would chip a hole in the top and bottom & blow the egg out.  Mind you you run the risk of cracking the egg, but then you don't have the "bomb" factor anymore.

Vitha


-----Original Message-----
>From: Bronwynmgn at aol.com
>Sent: Apr 17, 2006 7:25 AM
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Really Spiffy Decorated Eggs
>
>In a message dated 4/16/2006 12:23:23 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
>selene at earthlink.net writes:
>
><<it is very important that
>you do not break the egg.   You will know that the good luck has escaped
>because of the pluperfectally  ghastly smell!>>
> 
>Sometimes they break themselves quite a while after being made.  I  came home 
>from Pennsic once to find a terrible smell in the living room,  centering 
>near the fireplace.  It took me a while to realize that my  pysanky egg was 
>missing - or rather, in a heap of rubble on the mantelpiece,  with splatters of 
>what used to be egg guts up to the 8 foot high ceiling and 6  or 8 feet away on 
>the walls.  It must have been quite the explosion;  sometimes later I found a 
>piece of shell on the soffit over the living room  window, a good 8-10 linear 
>feet from where the egg had been sitting and a bit  higher up...
> 
>Brangwayna Morgan
> 
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