[Sca-cooks] Edible Gold Leaf, was EK Coronation feast analysis (LONG)

[Olwen the Odd]

>>Brigid, where did you find the edible gold dust? There's a lady in my
>>barony who's searching (without much success, so far) for edible gold
>>*leaf* for an A&S project....
>>
>>--maire, who thinks your feast sounds wonderful.....
>
>If PURE gold is used, it is edible. The body doesn't digest it and it 
>contains nothing harmful.
>
>However, many "gold" leafing products these days are just "gold" colored 
>and contain metals and other things that are not good to ingest. These are 
>bad for one's health.
>
>So your lady friend needs to talk to the calligraphers and illuminators so 
>she can find the purest gold leaf.
>
>Anahita

Or you can just go to the cake decorating shoppe and get the powdered stuff 
or, in lots of cases, the edible gold leaf.  You can get silver there too.
Olwen

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