Saffron was, in the Middle Ages, the source of a yellow dye used in manuscript illumination. A pinch of saffron was infused with glair, an egg-white glue, to produce a transparent yellow glaze sometimes used as a substitute for gold. As well, it was used as a hair dye. Its supposed medicinal attributes - a cure for plague, madness, melancholia, and toothache. Judy in New Jersey where Indian summer is offering a final few golden days before cold weather arrives to stay