[Sca-cooks] Re: Indigo

[Johnna Holloway]

The 'kitchen boys' at Hampton Court were using indigo for coloring
the one section of the sugarpaste that they were working on for their
Jacobean demo when we were there in April. I do have pictures.
They weren't working on a section that required mixing, so I can't speak
to the add saffron get green aspects.

Johnnae

Elise Fleming wrote:

>There's a reference in _Curye on Inglysch_, Book V: Goud Kokery, number 15,
>"To make ymages in suger".  Among the coloring agents for the boiled sugar
>is this which I've put into modern type:  And if ye will make it grene,
>take ynde wawdeas ii penyweyght, ii penyweyte of saffron, the water of the
>gleyr of ii egges, and stampe all wele togeder and anoynte it wyth all." 
>Presumably the blue mixed with the yellow saffron produced green.  It
>continues saying that if one wants a lighter green, use more saffron.
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>Alys Katharine
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