SC - Artemisian Champion comments and blood soup recipe

[Jeanne Schweiger]

On Mon, 15 May 2000, Morgan Cain wrote:

> If you want to veer from the recipe, you can do a sort of Easter Egg
> effect using a soaking broth made from onion skins, beets, or
> whatever.  You should add a couple glugs of vinegar (use the cheap
> distilled stuff here as it won't be noticed) to help set the dye on
> the eggshell, since you would not want to set it by heating the
> soaking fluid.

If you boil these for at least 10 minutes they will last for years on
room temeperature. If you tie things (string, lace, leafs, etc, etc) to
them you can get a "tie-dye" effect.

Dunno of it is period, though.

/UlfR

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