***I gave up on the extracting the cochineal from the bug shells through filtering... would not filter through a coffee filter or newspaper. So, I threw all the bugs in the pot, boiled it, and then filtered the bugs out using a window screen into another container, dumped it back in. There are still (whole) bugs in there, so I expect there will be strange dye marks and oddities in this. But... it's all an experiment, so... fine. #cochineal