SC - A different egg question-part 2
Sharon R. Saroff
sindara at pobox.com
Wed Mar 17 14:33:24 PST 1999
As egg shells are porous (which is of course, why coating the eggs with
stuff helps keep them fresh) I wouldn't be all that keen to eat an egg
boiled in cochineal. 'specially not if it has been boiled for that long!
Kiriel
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> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 2:18 AM
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> Subject: SC - A different egg question
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> Greetings the list
>
> At our most recent cooks guild meeting we dyed eggs using natural dyes.
> The colors came out amazingly bright! I will post pictures once I get
> them
> developed.
> I know the cabbage and the onion-skin dyed eggs are safe to eat. I am
> wondering if the eggs boiled for 20 minutes in water containing crushed
> cochneal (did I get the spelling at least close?) are safe to eat? And
> where could I find more information on natural dyes - other colors, period
>
> colors... I found 2 relevant web sites, and of those, one lists dyes and
> then states some of these (and does not specify which) are not safe to eat
>
> ;-(.
>
> So thank you all for the help!
>
> Gwen-Cat
> Caerthe
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