{"id":1289,"slug":"food-coloring-from-cabbage","title":"Food Coloring from Cabbage","description":"This homemade food coloring is prepared from red cabbage. Because red cabbage pigment is pH-sensitive, it starts out purple but turns pink when combined with acid and blue when combined with alkaline substances.","ingredients_raw":["1 small red cabbage, chopped","1 cup water","¾ cup (150 g) white granulated sugar","½ teaspoon lemon juice, plus extra for pink color","¼ teaspoon vanilla extract","1 teaspoon baking soda (for blue color)"],"ingredients_norm":["red cabbage","water","white granulated sugar","lemon juice","vanilla extract","baking soda"],"steps":["Blend cabbage and water in a food processor.","Using a cheesecloth, strain the puree into a bowl to extract the juice.","Pour the juice into a pan and add sugar.","Turn the heat to medium-high, and stir to dissolve the sugar.","Skim off and discard any foam that collects at the surface of the liquid.","Turn the heat to high and boil until the liquid reduces to a single-thread consistency.","Turn off the heat and stir in the lemon juice and vanilla.","If you want to color the mixture pink, stir in additional lemon juice, 1 teaspoon at a time. If you want to color it blue, stir in the baking soda.","Cool slightly, then pour into an airtight jar."],"categories":["Recipes for food coloring","Recipes using granulated sugar","Recipes using lemon juice","Recipes using vanilla","Recipes using baking soda","Recipes using red cabbage"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":30,"servings":null,"yield_text":"1 cup (280 g)","difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Food_Coloring_from_Cabbage","source_ref":"4630336","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Food_Coloring_from_Cabbage&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"9325df95e1e5aebd7d0d145664a8958f7fcc9c5028c1b76c98ea3d6294e426ca","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:02Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:02Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/food-coloring-from-cabbage"}