[Sca-cooks] dissolving saunder

[Olwen the Odd]

After about 10 minutes I went to my test glasses and did just that.  I
swirled each glass twice gently and here is what happened.  The cold water
test had actually begun to disperse on its own but was not becoming
solouable but still stayed in suspended tiny bits.  Upon swirling some of
the bits dissolved completely and dyed the water lightly in a top down
spiral (top being the big end).  The hot water sample had by that time
become room temperature and some of the clumps actually began to rise (as
clumps) to the surface.  Upon swirling it mostly stayed in clumps that broke
apart and I had nice streaks of saunder red swirls in a spiral from the
bottom up but not much dissolved colour.  The wine sample was already fairly
dispersed but not incorporated and after two swirls it was nicely and evenly
coloured with no clumps at all.  The vodka sample kind of surpized me.  All
the clumps were still sitting in pattern on the bottom and when I swirled it
they stayed pretty much where they were with only a small cloud of
colouration to the liquid around it.
Olwen

>what happens in each when you agitate slightly?
>
>niccolo
>
>sca-cooks at ansteorra.org wrote:
> > >It may be that you found it to be Alcohol soluable (wine/mead has a
>good>bi=
> >t of that in it).  I have had some challenge getting it to supend in just
> >w=
> >ater, but persistance will give you some level of success.
> >
> >niccolo difrancesco
> >
> >sca-cooks at ansteorra.org wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >2. Sandalwood (saunders). See Forme of Cury (circa 1390), Chiquart's
> >'On
> > >Cookery'. My understanding is that saunders is fat soluble. Without
> >fat, it
> > >may lie in globules in a liquid
> >
> >Huh?  I've been able to get it to dissolve in water as I used some in
> >my last batch of mead.  One thing I have noticed is that it is a very
> >dry and finely divided powder and is VERY prone to static attraction.
> >If I place a dry teaspoon in the jar, powder hangs off the end of the
> >edge of the spoon like iron filings on a magnet.  If you stir saunders
> >into water vigourously then you break the attraction and it dissolves
> >well.  It coloured my mead beautifully.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Drake.
>
>OK.  My 4 day migraine is almost over, I have completed two marzipan coats
>of arms and 6 glass bead coat-of-arms and now I have just done a saunder
>test.  I used 10 tablespoons of liquid in each test and like glasses.  In
>the first I put very cold water, the second I put hot water, the third I
>put
>wine and the fourth I put vodka.  The saunder is still sitting clumped in
>the first, in the second it dissolved but sank in a direct pattern to the
>bottom, in the third it dissolved and dispersed and in the fouth it sank in
>the same clumps immediately to the bottom of the glass.
>Olwen
>PS who is on the list from Utah?  Having a Baronial (?) Birthday ne t (I
>don't have the letter working on my keyboard) weekend?
>
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