[Sca-cooks] Re: indigo

[Elaine Koogler]

Unless you happen to visit Dun Carraig's encampment at Pennsic, where one of our
folk makes a blue drink that is to die for!  I can't remember all of the
ingredients, but it is definitely blue.  And it is so good that they gifted our
newly-married Queen at Pennsic with a bottle.  Later that  evening she was seen
wandering out of the Royal encampment brandishing the bottle in her hand.  She
returned several hours later, with an almost empty bottle!

Kiri

"Pixel, Goddess and Queen" wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Laura C. Minnick wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Nambeanntan at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > I nearly tossed my tea at this idea.  Indigo is subjected to an oxidation
> > > process much as tea leaves are but with the additional step of  being soaked
> > > in ammonia as a mordant.  I have never come across any warnings or cautions
> > > about using indigo just about the urine needed for the mordant.
> >
> > So that explains!... I Have a Christmas wreath that I made several years
> > ago, trimmed with some sort of dried grass/wheatlike stuff that has been
> > dyed dark blue. It is ok hanging on the door, but when you first pull it
> > out of the box- Phwew! And working with the stuff was a little whiffy.
> > Hmm. Wonder if it was dyed with indigo!
> >
> > In general, I don't believe in blue food. The exception being the large
> > quantities of blue Powerade that I put away...
> >
> > 'Lainie
>
> That's one of my Rules. Don't eat blue food. And the corollary--don't
> drink blue drinks.
>
> Seriously, though, even a chemical indigo vat (rather than a fermentation
> vat using stale urine) is pretty odiferous, and if you don't rinse your
> dyed goods well, they will stink.
>
> Margaret
>
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