Marigold

Carotenoid dye with no cost attached. It stains the grain and adds a faint hay note.

Dried petal in the pot turns pale stock yellow and gives it a bitter backbone.

Lutein is fat-soluble, which is why petals colour butter and never colour water.

Fed to hens or stirred into custard, the same pigment does the same job twice.

Georgian logic: bitter petal and bitter nut oil, thinned with stock into a sauce.

Soapy aldehyde against resinous petal; both are green in a way that annoys people.

Tagetes grows between the rows in Mexico. Sweet starch takes the bitterness well.

Earthy legume needs a bitter top note more than it needs another herb.

The petal is the original curd dye. Double Gloucester is orange because of this flower.

Resin and fat, the rosemary trade. The bitterness stands in for the missing acid.

Aster on aster: the petals stain the oil saffron-yellow and faintly bitter.

Bitter petal on sweet protein, the way grapefruit works. Use the petal, discard the base.

Tagetes throws tangerine terpenes that sit exactly where the citrus peel would.