[Sca-cooks] Fwd: Marzipan

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

From: "Olwen the Odd" <olwentheodd at hotmail.com>
>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

I've been reading German Medieval and Renaissance recipes and several
call for coloring foods blue using soaked flowers: in one case,
violets, in several others cornflowers (also called bachelor's
buttons). I haven't tried either, but i'd suspect they'd taste better
than cabbage :-)

Anahita