March 27 - Dye Easter Eggs even if there are no kids around. Buy the kit with the garish colors or, if you need to be more serious, use natural dyes - like beets and onions. Search "natural Easter egg dyes" on google.
I am a PAAS girl myself. Love solid brightly colored eggs. But I will be doing this Saturday when I am not working, so this lenten thought will be put on hold.
I had thought about doing eggs in more of a natural way - my family always did the onion shells, which I didn't like - if I wanted brown eggs I could just buy brown eggs and hard boil them. But somthing about the fizz of a PAAS tablet I find exciting.
Here is the history of PAAS from there site:
The original PAAS Easter egg dye was invented by an American named William Townley.
"Mr. Townley owned a drug store in Newark, New Jersey, where he concocted recipes for home products. In the late 1800s, he came up with a recipe for Easter egg dye tablets that tinted eggs five cheerful colors.
Neighborhood families started buying Townley’s Easter Egg Dye packets in 1880 for only five cents and mixed them with water and white vinegar to create the perfect egg dye!
Soon, Mr. Townley realized that he had a wonderful product that other families would like to use to brighten their Easter tradition. He renamed his business the PAAS Dye Company. The name PAAS comes from “Passen,” the word that his Pennsylvania Dutch neighbors used for Easter.
Today, Americans purchase more than 10 million PAAS Easter Egg Color Kits during the Easter season, and use them to decorate as many as 180 million eggs!
WOW - 130 years of PAAS - I always wonder what PAAS meant - now I know!
Have a colorful day!
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