SC - Red color

[Cindy Renfrow]

>I am in desperate need of a substance to color water red that will not stain
>fabric, but is safe to drink! This is for a Comedia troop, I Genesii. I hope
>someone can help me, I need the information as soon as posible.
>
>
>Thank you,
>
>Lady Anna oftderTurm
>
>Life is a Party. Each day is a gift, to be opened with
>Anticipation, Joy and Thankfulness.


Here's a list of the coloring agents Dame Alys & I have come up with so far
for our food coloring article.  My guess is that most of the fruit juices
(the most pleasant things here to drink) will stain. A magic shop might be
able to supply you with some color-changing "red wine".

The Coloring Agents, by Color:

Reds:

Alkanet	- soluble in fat, stains
Barberries
Beet root - stains
Brazel
Bugloss
Carrot
Cherries
Corn Poppy
Cowslips
Currants
Galingale
Gum Lac/ Kermes/ Cochineal - stains
Mulberry - stains
Pomegranate
Quince
Rose
Rosa Paris
Sandalwood/ Saunders
Turnsole - used as cloth dye
Vermilion

Yellows:
Brazel
Egg yolks
Marigold
Rose
Saffron
Safflower
Sap Green
Yellow Smalt

White:
Egg whites
Wheat flour

Metallic colors:
Gold and Silver leaf
Tin leaf (white, red, or green)

Greens:
Barley
Beet greens
Betony
Elder bark
Indian Lake
Mallows
Mint
Orache
Parsley
Quinces
Sap Green
Sorrel
Spinach
Turnsole
Wheat blades
Woad
Wood Sorrel

Blues:
Azure/ Blew
Bluebottles in Corne
Borage
Elder bark
"Indigo Stone..."
Turnsole
Woad

Purples:
Elderberries
Mulberry
Turnsole
Violets

Brown:
Cinnamon
Ginger

Black:
Blood
Burnt Bread

HTH,


Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu
renfrow at skylands.net
Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of 15th
Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
Recipes"
http://www.thousandeggs.com -- please come visit my new web site!


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