[Sca-cooks] Thistle Recipe from Fabulous Feast

[Terry Decker]

What we call blueberries are New World, but the term encompasses a number of
blue fruits primarily in the genus Vaccinium (some of which, IIRC, are found
in the Old World).  You might also check on bilberries.  There was an
extensive discussion of this on the list a couple of years ago and the
discussions made it into the Florilegium.

Bear

> Well, blueberries being New World, probably not any period recipes for
them.
> We are talking Fab. Feasts here, so who knows where the original
idea/recipe
> came from?
> Christianna
>
> The period ingredient I'm familiar with for coloring things blue is
> turnsole. Does anyone know of a period recipe that uses blueberries
> for coloring? That uses blueberries at all? So far the nearest I have
> found is a reference to whortleberries (which can be a name for
> blueberries) in Hildegard of Bingen--warning against eating them,
> because they are bad for you.
> --
> David/Cariadoc