[Sca-cooks] Pickled or no? -

[Sue Clemenger]

You can get lovely fuchsias with cochineal <g>.
And I've gotten good pinks by fiddling with the pH in madder baths.
--maire, who ruins a *lot* of clothes, usually right across the chest....
oh, and tell James to quit throwing food at your skirt <g>

Laura C. Minnick wrote:


> Why oh why oh why is it, that if I *don't* want my clothing stained with 
> beet, I *will* drop one in my lap, and it *will never* come out! But I 
> have tried using beet to dye (that fuschia color really is pretty!) 
> fabric, it fades out? I don't get it! <whine, snivel>
> 
> Then there way the time I went out do dinner with my Sweetie, wearing my 
> favorite marigold yellow shirt. And *blup*! There goes a spoon of 
> cioppino. It never came out. :-(