Sanguine - was, Re: [Sca-cooks] blue food

[Philip & Susan Troy]

"Cindy M. Renfrow" wrote:
>
> The recipe in Epulario, "To make Gealies of flesh or fish, and of divers
> colours in one platter" says "you may make a sangune colour with Carriots
> rosted in the embers, and being rosted, make cleane the outside with a
> knife which is sanguine,...".

Just out of curiosity, what does sanguine mean, in knife terms? I'm
aware of definitions of the word as either bloody (and by extension,
blood-colored) and as optimistic. How does one get a knife to be
sanguine, or do I not want to know?

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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