Saracen Sauce

[PHYLLIS SPURR]

Recently the gentle preparing the feast for Kingdom Dance & Music 
Symposium held a mock feast.  Within the first remove was a dish of 
meatballs in Saracen Sauce.  The meatballs were lamb while the  
sauce is red.  The cook used a food dye as called for in "Fabulous 
Feasts".  We were discussing the possibility of getting the same 
coloring without substantially changing the taste of the dish by 
using a period food-dye.

We discussed using beet juice, but that would change the taste.
Any suggestions?  Any references to a Saracen Sauce from a period 
source?

HL Eowyn ferch Rhys
Seneschal, Elfsea

Phyllis L. Spurr
aka Eowyn ferch Rhys, Elfsea