These are NOT hard to make – but I doubt I’ll do it again.
There are a few recipes, but they mostly consist of:
- 6-8 eggs
- 2 tea bags black tea
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 pieces whole star anise, or 1 teaspoon ground star anise
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 teaspoon cracked black peppercorns
- half of an orange peel
The procedure is to hard boil the eggs normally, then crack their shells, add the ingredients back into the water, and simmer for 1½ – 2 hours.
They were O.K., but heavy anise taste – I didn’t get any soy taste.
Because I like love PA Dutch red-beet eggs, I’m going to try again using the same procedure, but replacing red-beet pickling juice for the ingredients.
PJ
