[Sca-cooks] blue food

[Olwen the Odd]

>There is a recipe in the Neapolitan collection (#88 in Scully's _Cuoco
>Napoletano_) that refers to turning white gelatine to peacock blue using
>carrot shavings. Scarlet, purple and blue/black carrots contain
>anthocyanins
>that are pH sensitive (red to blue shift, acid to base), and react to
>certain metal ions (i.e., pot materials). You might experiment with those.
>
>Thomas Longshanks

Ok I'll bite.  Where do you get white gelatine and black carrots?

Olwen
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