Things To Do: Handmade in Britain activities. Minus2909: Blue soda bread and home science. One of the brilliant things you can do at home, which is also really colourful, is make your own pH indicator from red cabbage water.
Here's a particular use for it which occurred to me the other day:Making naturally blue soda bread. The way this works is that so-called "red" cabbage (which i think of as purple) is very high in an anthocyanin. The word "anthocyanin" is from the Greek words anthos - flower, and kyanos - blue. Anthocyanins are in fact not necessarily blue but all sorts of colours. They are also useful in herbal medicine. Sandra Dodd: Unschooling's Unexpected Benefits. Unschooling: the new class of learning. Learning for Fun: Interview with Sandra Dodd - Unschooling Mom for 22 Years! Digg digg For the first time today on Mommy Labs, I’m sharing an interview.
I’m all stimulated about this and hope you’ll love reading, too.