They are called Pace Eggs.... not sure why. The last 3 Sundays of Lent were called Carlin, Palm and Pace Egg days. Carlins were small brown peas that were boiled and eaten with a little vinegar I believe, obviously Palm Sunday, was celebrated with Palm crosses and then Pace Eggs on Easter...
Dandelions and primroses and violets work well and ferns but it is fiddly keeping them all in position whilst you wrap them in the onion skins and then the old rags and tie with string. The onion skins provide a nice brown colouration around the flower colours. Oh and we rubbed them with butter...
We always died our eggs with wild flowers, ferns and onion skins. We went out and collected the wild flowers and leaves with an interesting structure and pressed them against the eggs, then carefully wrapped in brown onion skins and then old rags and boiled them.
I'm not sure if it is just a...