[Sca-cooks] Thistle Recipe from Fabulous Feasts

[Jeff Gedney]

>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.

what color are bilberrries?

Capt Elias

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather 
wood, divide the work, and give orders.  Instead, teach them
to yearn for the vast and endless sea. 
  - Antoine de Saint Exupery