SC - Frumenty using barley?

[Gerekr@aol.com]

>Greetings.  Cindy questioned what was sap green.  (I thought I had sent
>that info in the article we are doing???)  Daniel Thompson in his book
>on (Methods and Materials of Painting???) gives sap green as a pigment
>made from buckthorn berries.  It was used as a food colorant,
>especially in confections, through at least the early 1800s when it is
>mentioned as a coloring agent in A Treatise on Adulterations of Food by
>F. Accum, 1820.  I can't locate Thompson's book but Accum says " Now
>sap-green itself, as prepared from the juice of the buckthorn berries,
>is no doubt a harmless substance, but the manufacturers of this colour
>have for many years past produced various tints, some extremely bright,
>which there can be no doubt are effected by addin preparations of
>copper."

Hello!  Yes, you did send me that info, but someone here mentioned other
sources of the color besides buckthorn & I was wondering what documentation
they had?

Regards,

Cindy


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