[Sca-cooks] beet juice dye (last)

[ruadh]

Kool-Aid common dye.  Look in trash can for left-over package...
Smurf Blue was developed for dyers, Smurf-ism was added by the market place.
Ask the local kids what flavours of  "Red" you serve.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Thompson" <JenniferT at ptb.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:01 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] beet juice dye (last)


> >> Lann...
> >> I must have done so accidentally, since I have been told that
> >> it won't work.
>
> > From: "ruadh"
> >
> > the vinegar ! it's cheap photo fixer too.  Ru
> >
>
> Argh, none of the above. I'm in my kitchen last night way past my bedtime
> and the hubby comes in and asks what I'm doing. I tell him I'm trying to
> replicate the beet juice dyeing, and he asks if I'm at the point yet where
I
> get fed up, cuss a blue streak, dump the leftover KoolAid packet on it and
> stomp off to bed, because that's where he's headed. To which my response
was
> "I never did any... such..... thing....... oh dear."
>
> Lesson one - beet juice needs a mordant, I believe. I *did* get a pale
rose,
> but after the lovely color in the bowl, it's pretty disappointing.
Probably
> because of the vinegar.
> Lesson two - I *really* need to keep a notebook.
> Lesson three - Kool Aid (no, I don't know which flavor, see previous note)
> turns slightly pale beet dyed wool into *exactly* the color that one would
> expect beet juice to do. Especially if the wool in question has been
soaking
> in beet juice.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on what to do with two cans worth of beets? San
juice?
> The baby and I ate them all last time, so we are beeted out and the hubby
> won't touch them.
>
> And what's the rock?
>
> Lann the inept
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