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

[Nicolas Steenhout]

At 09:05 AM 6/26/01 -0400, you wrote:
>"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?

I had never heard of that word used in that sense...  Again, we have a word
of French origin.  Sanguine (feminine form) or sanguin (masculine form)
mean bloody.  It is used to describe a colour that looks like blood.

Doesn't mean I'm not missing something here :-))


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Nicolas Steenhout
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