[Sca-cooks] Fwd: Marzipan

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

Cabbage-flavored marzipan? *shudder* Oh, ick.

One of the pottages in the Anglo-Norman corpus (I don't remember if
it made it into _Curye on Inglysch_ or not) states the color should be
indigo. Our dyeing instructor said that when indigo is blue it is inert,
but I don't know that you want to be consuming it, either. The question is
whether they actually meant real indigo, or were using the word to mean
blue generically. If you go with the first interpretation, she could use a
dark blue powder color in imitation of indigo.

Or, elderberries are a very strong color and a period dye for blue.

Margaret FitzWilliam




On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Olwen the Odd wrote:

> Good day all.  I am forwarding part of a message from a friend in Germany.
> She has a question.  Anyone have any suggestions?  Frankly, I can not
> imagine the taste of cabbage flavored marzipan.  Uck.
>
> Olwen
>
> >From: "Martina Furtak" <Tina_Marcellina at web.de>
> >Hallo Olwen,
> >I started making Marzipan myself and doing a lot of funny things with it.
> >But I have the problem, that I need a period possibility of blue
> >food-color. Do you know one? The best I could find was a kind of thick tee
> >of  blue cabbage, but I'd rather like something better, at least tasting
> >ans smelling better ;-).
> >I have to do the arms of a Barony in Marzipan to the end of this week :-S
> >
> >Hope you have a idea
> >Let the sun shine for you
> >Marcellina