SC - Sap Green: Was: Recipe from Murrell
Cindy Renfrow
renfrow at skylands.net
Fri Feb 26 07:19:28 PST 1999
>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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