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[oxoniensis]

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[akacat]

My mom's made it a lot, but I never have. A couple of bottles doesn't sound quite right, but I could see one full bottle being used. It is a pretty deep/bright red.

[oxoniensis]

It's just that I'm used to measuring food colouring by drops. Maybe a teaspoon. But a bottle seemed so much I wondered if American food colouring is maybe very different from the stuff we have. I was also a tiny bit worried that using that much might affect the flavour.

It sounds fascinating though.

[akacat]

I'm pretty sure that the food coloring does affect the flavor. I never noticed a downside to it.

I just checked, the copy of the recipe I have calls for 2oz of red coloring. Huh. I guess that is more than one bottle!

[akacat]

Oh, and most recipes I've seen do measure food coloring in drops or fractions of a teaspoon. So there probably isn't any significant difference between ours and yours.

[oxoniensis]

Thanks so much for the help - there are so many differences between ingredient names and measurement methods in UK and US recipes, I had no idea what to think about the quantity.