[Sca-cooks] Re: FRW: Masipane

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In a message dated 09/12/2001 3:54:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
sca-cooks-request at ansteorra.org writes:


> > Hm.. what about mulberries or bilberries?
> >
> > -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
> > jenne at fiedlerfamily.net OR jenne at tulgey.browser.net OR jahb at lehigh.edu
> > "Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."
> >
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> I must be suffering from a brain blackout today...
> Aren't blueberries an excellent "dye" type thing too?
> or do they do it in purple...?
>
> Kay
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blue berries were used in colonial America to make blue paint out of milk.
not sure how it was done, but a lot of the building in Colonial Williamsburg
were painted with it.

Margherita the Weaver