[Sca-cooks] Thistle Recipe from Fabulous Feasts

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach 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...)

I believe the recipe is Italian, and calls for blackberries.

Adamantius

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