The mention of 'blue' for whitening laundry reminded me of the time at school we had to make and ice Christmas cakes. We were told to put a drop of blue in the royal icing to make appear bright white - naturally I was the only one to put too much in and ended up with a green cake! It wasn't too bad though, as my mother put a different scene on the cake each year (penguins on a pond, snowmen etc) and that year she had thought a Native American scene complete with fire, squaw with papoose, chief and a wigwam (all plastic figures) would be unusual. So the green icing became grass and when the cake was on display with all the 'normal'ones after the school Xmas performances it got more than a few double takes and laughs! Ah, happy memories!
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