[Sca-cooks] Coloring bread...

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Come over with some fresh beets and spinach and use my juice extractor.  Use the
juice as the liquid in the bread recipes.  Glorious!  And I'm pretty sure Her
Sweetness The Baroness can consume those.  I can also loan you my French bread
pan, which makes a pair of slim baguettes that would slice into nice little
rounds for the pate'.

Somewhere, in a box <glyph of frustration> I have THE DARKOVER COOKBOOK, a
long-out-of-print SF fanzine with some wonderful recipes in it, one of which is
a tasty and very green spinach bread.  I don't suppose any of you old fanzine
fans out there have it handy?

Selene, Caid

Mercy Neumark wrote:

> Hello All!
>
> I thought it would be a cute idea (evile plans of mice and arte, it seems)
> if when I make my bread for Yule, that I color it possibly green/red/blue or
> any combination there of.  Spoke to someone who told me not to use food
> coloring for said project because the coloring would probably turn lighter
> (like olive green instead of the bright green I was hoping for).
>
> So, anyone have suggestions on what to use to dye the bread different
> colors?  Read a recipe for some red pears using red sandalwood for the
> coloring...is using this a possibility?  Anything else?  My friend suggested
> maybe using dill as a colorant, but it isn't exactly the effect (and our
> baroness is allergic to just about anything, so I'm afraid to use dill).