Red or Pink Coloring

Name: Red or Pink Coloring
Ingredients: Gather pokeberries just before frost falls; express the juice; to one pint of juice allow three-quarters of a pound of white sugar

From The universal cookery book, 1887

This quantity will last an ordinary family for a whole year.

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The universal cookery book (1887) by Gertrude Strohm, page 86. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RED OR PINK COLORING. marking it off in squares to cut after it hardens suffi- ciently. If you would like a portion pink, stir a little pokeberry-jelly into some of the candy while hot, until it has acquired the tint you like. — Virginia Cookery-Book : Mrs. Mary Stuart Smith. Harper & Brothers , Pubs. {By per.) Red or Pink Coloring. Gather pokeberries just before frost falls; express the juice, and let it drip clear through a flannel or thin muslin bag; to one pint of juice allow three- quarters of a pound of white sugar

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