[Sca-cooks] Marzipan! Fruit!

[Cat Dancer]

I'm an overachiever. :-)

The green and yellow are from a bin of very very old liquid food color 
made by General Mills. The red is powdered color of the same vintage. Any 
brown will be paste color from Wilton's. The ancient color is leftover 
from my grandfather's stock--and he died in 1988, so that should give you 
a starting idea of how old these colors are.

I have some petal dusts, but I really wasn't happy with how they look. 
Mostly they're for flowers, so shades of pink and purple and such, and 
that just doesn't work well for fruit.

And no, I don't really think people are going to want to eat them, since 
they'll be hard as little marbles by October, and hopefully varnished or 
similarly glazed (I'm thinking egg whites). If I get time I will make up 
extra so that if people really want they can have marzipan fruit, and for 
those I'll use new paste colors. Don't want to poison people accidentally.

I bought fruit today to use as examples. ;-)

I need another fruit for variety, and I'm undecided between cherries and 
grapes, which seem to be common in representations of fall fruits. 
Cherries are larger, but much much darker and I haven't a clue what sort 
of thing to make the stems out of, so it's six of one, half-dozen of the 
other.

Margaret


On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Sue Clemenger wrote:

> Wow! Those are wonderful! I especially like the pears, and the streaky 
> yellow-red apples.  They look very realistic (and yummy, but then, I'm 
> perishingly fond of marzipan).
> What are you using to color them?
> --maire
>