BS: The yolk was on me

Subject: BS: The yolk was on me
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 06:01 PM

I squeezed one of THESE too hard while trying to melt and wipe the wax off.
My wife had had a kit for making 'em for over 20 years, and we finally tried it.

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: Peace
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 06:02 PM

Beautiful work, frogprince.

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 06:28 PM

Did you not get the instruction to hard boil them first??

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: Peace
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 06:29 PM

Pin hole in the top; pin hole in the bottom. Then get someone's grandma . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 08:15 PM

Sorry, Liz, (and Peace) no cigars; the instructions for doing these, ukrainian style with wax resist, definitely say to use whole raw eggs. Supposedly if you varnish them they will just dry up inside without becoming stink bombs, but you have the option of puncturing them and blowing them out (or having your granny suck eggs)
after dying and varnishing them. : )

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 08:19 PM

Remember Peace,

Blow, don't suck...

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 08:45 PM

But Liz, like Chevy Chase said long ago on Saturday Night Live,
"No, 'blow' is just an expresson".

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: Peace
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 11:12 PM

You guys are seriously SICK! Nice eggs though.

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 12:08 PM

The thing is, it takes so long to make these things that people generally wouldn't want to bust them up to eat them. Apart from that, I don't know if the dying would work the same on eggs that had been boiled, and a little chemistry you wouldn't want to ingest might get into the egg from the kind of dye used.

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: Janie
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 01:11 PM

Question. How they gonna dry up if sealed with varnish?

Inquiring minds want to know.

And they are lovely!

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 06:22 PM

Janie, the instructions, and some people we know with experience, say they will very slowly dry away okay in there, over at least quite a few months.

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: bobad
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 06:28 PM

My wife makes these eggs, pysanky in Ukranian, in this manner and they do eventually dry out with a little hardened yolk remaining, which feels like a little rubber ball rolling around inside.

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 06:51 PM

If Bobad's wife has been doing it awhile, her designs are probably much more symnetrical and clearly defined than mine; I had a heck of a time getting wax to flow at all smoothly.

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 07:15 PM

It ate my post! My hands aren't steady enough

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: open mike
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 01:10 AM

i recall posting a bunch of links to pysanky recenlty..

not sure which thread, though..

i once did a video and interview of a Ukranian woman

and she showed step by step how to do these..

she had hundreds of them. i am glad i documented her

when i did. she is gone now.

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 02:19 AM

Beautiful! Thansk for sharing with us!

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: frogprince
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 08:43 PM

Your welcome, Ms. Kitty; it's nice when someone says thansky for one's
pysanky! : )   (Me, I nveer make tpyos!)

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 10:50 PM

Beautiful, FP. How do you dry the wax so that the egg doesn't have a flattened side? Is each egg turned periodically until the wax is hardened?

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: Firecat
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 02:03 PM

I like the butterfly one.

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: frogprince
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 05:57 PM

Ebbie, I think you misunderstand the process some;
The wax is applied by melting it in an itty-bitty copper funnel on a stick and flowing it unto the egg.
First you draw all the pattern lines meant to stay white, and put it in yellow dye.
Then you wax over any lines and areas to be yellow, paint any blues or greens with an artist brush and wax them over, and put it in orange dye.
proceed with wax and red dye, then finish waxing over all but what you want black, and (guess what) toss it in black dye.
The wax hardens as fast as you apply it. After all the dying, you hold it by a candle to melt the wax, wipe it off with paper towel or tissue, and melt, and wipe, and melt, and wipe, and melt, and wipe, and eventually get the whole mess off.
You pat the egg dry after each dye, and within a few minutes you can start the next stage of waxing. I made a drying board with a triangle of little brads to hold each egg.

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: frogprince
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 06:08 PM

The drying rack is also 'cause after the wax is off you rub a little varnish on 'em.

Sum total, roughly 14 man-hours between us for the eggs you see; I don't know if old Ukrainians make them a lot faster, or just take the same amount of time and make them a lot neater and more detailed. : )

Subject: RE: BS: The yolk was on me
From: Bert
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 11:39 PM

We've been making them for years. It's kind of a family tradition now. Everyone mucks in and nobody cares if the quality varies a little (or a lot).

Anyone who visits us while we are 'in session' has to make one of their own.