[Sca-cooks] Partly OP: Brown vs. white rice?

[Sue Clemenger]

The "brown" or "white" may be relative terms, as well.  I recall at 
least one past thread in which we discussed saunders as a food 
coloring--I'd always assumed it would look like red sandalwood, as it's 
described as being used to turn things red or reddish.  The saunders 
that I've got (and will actually use, one of these days, darn it) is 
almost what I'd call a terracotta-rusty orange.  And, if I recall the 
consensus of the thread, that color was (in period) considered within 
the "red" range.
--maire, out on a vague limb....

Daniel Myers wrote:

> 2.  Many of the dishes made with rice in period cookbooks reference the 
> color white.
> 
> 3.  I have yet to see a period source refer to rice as being brown.