[Sca-cooks] gold leaf/gold food coloring

[Stefan li Rous]

Madhavi asked:
> How did you do the silver guilding? Did you use actual varak, or something
> else? I would love to do edible gold leaf for my feast in 2 1/2 weeks... any
> suggestions?

It may be a bit late to do much, but here are a few files in the
Florilegium that might help:

endoring-msg       (5K)  7/ 8/02    Medieval methods of giving food a gold color

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/endoring-msg.html

gilded-food-msg   (22K)  4/19/99    Gilded foods. Using gold and silver foil.

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/gilded-food-msg.html
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