[Sca-cooks] silver leaf

[johnna holloway]

You can also find [with some looking] food-grade
non-toxic chalk for decorating.
Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

"Pixel, Goddess and Queen" wrote:  snipped
> If the tops of lampreys are bluish silver, then you might want to use
> silver dusting powder (it's usually mica and chalk, non-toxic and harmless
> but you don't want to be eating it in quantity) and doctor it up with some
> blue chalk. Yes, you heard me right, chalk.>
> Take blue chalk, the kind you buy at Wally's Discount Capitalist Emporium
> for $.50 a box, and draw a few heavy lines on paper. Take a dry paintbrush
> and drag it through the chalk lines, then brush onto your lamprey. When
> he's the blue you want, dust him with silver, again with a dry brush.>
> This is the sort of thing you do to gum paste flowers to make them look
> lifelike. You can use it on royal icing as well--it's subtle but nifty. It
> also means you don't have to mess with bag striping to get multicolor
> effects on your roses. I *hate* bag striping. It never comes out how I
> envision it, so I've given up.> Margaret