[Sca-cooks] beet juice dye (last)

[Michael Newton]

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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] beet juice dye (last)


> Kool-Aid doesn't dye plant fibers? Pshaw. I have a number of formerly
> white t-shirts that would argue that point. Perhaps it should be "Kool-Aid
> doesn't dye plant fibers *when you're trying to get it to do so on
> purpose*." ;-)
>
> Margaret FitzWilliam
>
>Reminds me of a story I read in a dye book ( I forget which one) in which
the author was having fits tring to get a fast dye from blueberries, until
she decided to make a blueberry pie filling and dye with that concoction,
since the stain on her tablecloth from a blueberry pie won't come out.

Beatrix of Tanet