Fake blood recipe

Gomen, j'ai la flemme de tout traduire, but it is, actually, really interesting  ! ^o^ (À quand le project à la Ginger Snap ? XD)


Because of the food colouring used in a lot of blood recipies they tend to stain easily and can sometime look more purple than red. Here's a more natural alternative that's closer to a Spaghetti Western style arterial red. It also washes out of clothes easily and can be eaten reasonably safely (although why you'd want to eat it is beyond me).

Take a teaspoon or two of Arrowroot (a white powder used in baking that you can easily find in health food shops) and add to water heated on the stove. Stir continuously until the mixture becomes gloopy. Add a small amount of red children's non-toxic powder paint and stir in. The mixture should now be bright red. Add a tiny amount of brown powder paint or coffee concentrate (make this by adding a small amount of water to coffee granules) to darken the blood as required. Store in a bottle or jam jar and thin by adding water to make the blood the required consistency as and when you need it. For bullet hits you need to thin the blood quite a bit to allow it to spray out.

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From Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, England:

The recipe for making blood used by our stage management department consists of:

• Chocolate Angel Delight
• Water
• Chinese Bright red food colouring

I don't know if you get Angel Delight in America. Its an instant pudding mix which comes as a powder and has a mousse-like consistency. It tastes fairly sickly. But it makes a fake blood which you can get in your mouth and it won't hurt you. I guess any similar instant pudding would work. It will still stain clothes a bit.

You could always experiment with different dyes but they seem to think that the Chinese dye is best for washing out. Vary the amount of water for different thickness.

If you add a bit of dishwahing detergent to the above mix, you will have better luck washing it out of the clothing.

*Green* dishwashing liquid works better than yellow, since you can cancel out the green color with the red food coloring. Yellow detergent gives you a yucky color. Either way, you'll be glad you added the detergent!

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Two 16oz boxes chocolate instant pudding
1/2 cup dish detergent
1 oz bottle red food coloring
Add water until correct consistency - about 1 and 1/2 cups or so Mix well

Looks great, and no gooey, stickey, Karo syrup issues. Washes off easily with plain water. May delete the detergent to "drink", but staining then becomes an issue.

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Buckets o' Blood 2

This is great for the 'hands-on' type of blood, and (from what I hear) also works well in bath-tub sized proportions.

• 1 package plain gelatin or 1 package red colored JellO
• 2 bottle red food coloring (especially if using plain gelatin)
• 1 tbsp green food coloring
• 1 - 5 gallons of water (depending on desired consistancy)

Directions are simple: Follow the instructions on the side of the jello package, but double or quadruple the amount of water needed, and don't add any sugar. Doubling the water gives you a very slimy, gloopy jello which doesn't look a lot like blood, but can be fun to get kids to stick their hands into at hallowe'en parties. If you use 5 gallons of water, you're going to have quite a thin runny blood, great for pouring over bloodied bodies in bathtubs or splashing on walls (especially if you can hose down the walls after - I wouldn't recommend this in your livingroom or parent's bedroom). You can play around with the recipe to get the desired consistancy - gelatin is reasonably cheap and available in almost any grocery store.

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I was promised the recipe years ago, but only came across it quite recently. It was worth the wait. The mixture may seem odd, but it tastes pretty good, looks surprisingly like real blood, splatters like real blood, dries like real blood, and had several people asking me if I was really okay after that staged fight....

• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 3 or 4 tablespoon corn syrup
• 1/2 to 1 teaspoon red food coloring
• 2 drops yellow or green food coloring (optional)

Mix the cocoa powder thoroughly into the water before adding the other ingredients - it may help to use warm water. After adding the rest, blend the concoction well, and then wait for it to settle a bit. Either skim the bubbles & chocolate scum off the top with the edge of a kleenex, or pour the mixture into another container. The longer it sits, the more the cocoa tends to settle to the bottom, which oddly mimicks the effect of real blood seperating.

If you splatter this mixture onto cloth, it makes neat two-part marks which dry into pretty convincing bloodstains. If you let it run from a victim's mouth and then let it dry, the blood darkens and cakes to the skin in much the same way real blood does. I can also say from personal experience that any washcloth used to wipe down the 'bloody' face afterwards looks remarkably realistic, too.

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Cheap 'N' Easy Blood

This is good for spidering and works like a dream:

Plain Flour
Water
Red Food Coloring
1 tsp. of Coffee

Boil the water on the stove, then sieve in the flour, making sure you get ALL of the lumps out. The quantity of ingredients aren't important, it just depends on how much you want. Once you have the flour mixed nicely into the water it should look nice and thick. Next, add the red food coloring.

You will notice that it's a ghastly, bright red colour but don't worry this is why we add the coffee. It is important that when you add the coffee to make sure the mixture is hot, otherwise it wont dissolve, but up until adding the coffee can be done in a ordinary mixing jug or pan.

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You will need: 1 3/4 C corn syrup 1/4 C water 2 tsp. liquid red food coloring 8-10 drops liquid blue food coloring 1/4 C sifted corn starch

I like to use a salad dressing bottle to mix this formula. In any event, you will need a container that closes tightly and won't leak if you shake it.

Mix corn syrup and water, add food colorings, cover and shake to mix. Add the sifted cornstrach and shake well again. If any lumps remain, let the bottle site for a few seconds, they will rise to the top and you can skim them off. Store in the refrigerator, don't make too far in advance as this only keeps for a couple of days.

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Comments

[Trucydae]

why hopeless ? xD

[Aëlin]

this is hopeless

[Trucydae]

LOL *mets ses lunettes hot* XDDD

[p o i s o n e d*]

*met ta note en marque-page*
faut trop trop trop trop que j'me fasse des shashin avec ces recettes là! *-* et le zombie rot!! XD trop fort celui-là! alex-sama! *-*