[Sca-cooks] Thistle Recipe from Fabulous Feasts

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> 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.

Hm... Blueberries have a European cousin, bilberry or whortleberry, but 
I don't know if they used it for coloring.

What kind of berry is used in the Cerulean Blue Sauce for Summer (I'm 
using the title from Redon's _Medieval Kitchen_, I don't remember what 
culture it comes from...)

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