[Sca-cooks] blue food coloring

[Nancy Kiel]

I tried to find the crozophora tinc-whatever, but couldn't find any listing
in my plant books or on-line. Do you know the English name?



Nancy Kiel
nancy_kiel at hotmail.com
Never tease a weasel!
This is very good advice.
For the weasel will not like it
And teasing isn't nice.





>From: jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] blue food coloring
>Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:46:07 -0500 (EST)
>
> > Can anyone suggest a period blue food coloring?  I looked into turnsole,
>but
> > it comes from heliotrope which is poisonous.  Thanks!
>
>I remember a great deal of hoo-ha about this, because the words 'turnsole'
>and 'heliotrope' both mean 'turning toward the sun'. Our modern heliotrope
>flowers are 17th century fads, and not the turnsole of the period
>cookbooks.
>
>Crozophora tinctoria is listed on the poisonous plants list, but,
>disturbingly, so is Cucurbita pepo L. ?!
>
>Whortleberries are supposed to make a good blue.
>

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