Dreaming of Easter Eggs

Easter Monday, but I couldn't let the whole weekend go by without a mention of Easter Eggs, although today 'Easter Egg' means chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate, and eating whole baskets of them. Not that I've anything against chocolate, but whatever happened to boiling eggs in onion skins and other such to colour them, or even painting hard boiled ones with pretty patterns, then rolling them down the nearest slope, as we did when I was growing up. Or was that back in prehistoric times?