A bit more of the pumpkin was turned into a delicious sweet soup tonight (almost too sweet for soup lol).
Still have almost half a pumpkin left...off to check out other ideas you've all given me.
We decided to make a batch of gluten free playdough today and instead of colouring it with our only remaining food colouring in the cupboard (blue) I suggested we try using beetroot to give us a pink dough. So we boiled up the chopped beetroot and covered it in water and boiled it for a few minutes (I only needed a cup of boiling water for the recipe).
It worked really well! (this was taken before it set into a ball of dough!)
Then with the remaining pink water I couldn't help but think it was a waste to just toss it away so pulled out one of Danielle's very faded pink tops that could do with a spruce up. I was aware that beetroot dye doesn't tend to hold it's colour well, and I also didn't have the setting chemical required (can't recall what it is now). But it was worth a try.
It looked gorgeous as I pulled it out of the water, but of course once rinsed it returned pretty much to it's original colour (or maybe the lace down the front took up a little colour).
2 comments:
that photo before the rinse is amazing
Well you do have nice pink lace now! Another one of those synchronicity things - I've been thinking about plant dyes a lot lately too, and recently did a practice run for summer on some frozen blackberries.
Would alum be a good mordant for beetroot? I've kind of decided that's the only one I'll use, for now anyway, as the others aren't as safe (fumes etc.)
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