{"id":138559,"date":"2026-03-14T22:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138559\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T22:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:47:06","slug":"discover-german-scratch-eggs-a-unique-easter-tradition-in-pennsylvania-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138559\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover German scratch eggs, a unique easter tradition in Pennsylvania | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa. – Dyeing eggs is a common activity when it nears Easter, but have you heard of German Scratch Eggs?<\/p>\n

It’s a traditional Pennsylvania German way to decorate easter eggs!<\/p>\n

People got to come out for a class to learn all about it at the Berks History Center on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Traditionally you boil eggs with onion skins — which leaves behind a dye from the onions.<\/p>\n

Once it’s done, you scratch a design into the egg — revealing the white underneath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Dyeing eggs is a common activity when it nears Easter, but have you heard of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,232,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-138559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}