SC - A different egg question

[Robyn.Hodgkin at affa.gov.au]

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
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	grasse at mscd.edu [SMTP:grasse at mscd.edu]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 18, 1999 2:18 AM
> To:	sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject:	SC - A different egg question
> 
> 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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