Mummitrollet, Totoro & silver dragees (add pics)

Cute, animated Mummi the kids like.  And Totoro! Was reminding myself to make Mummitrollet and Totoro Christmas cookies. Find a Mummi or three, draw a likeness outline on parchment, cut out and use as a template for the roll-out sugar cookies, cocoa cookies, and thin pepparkakors. Paint with food coloring before baking. Decorate with silver dragees.


Mummitroldene sangen Mummi trolls song

Mummi sove tid

Totoro



Not sure whether it is true these are poisonous, but they are still sold here abroad as food/edible items. I like them, and think they´re pretty, and only use them for Christmas cookies. And I figure, if they are not banned here, then they are probably safe.

Interestingly, just saw several recent documentaries, about E numbers (food colors) and things used to enhance food to entice people/kids to eat the foods.

It was gorgeous yet shocking how some of the food colors were made from mercury (as silver dragees used to be!),  and bright pretty copper, to make children´s candies, such as M&M/nonstop types of candies. The chemist demonstrated, wearing full safety gear of face mask and gloves so as to not breath or touch the dangerous fumes or copper, to coat white boring basic round sugar candies with happy, fun, bright poisonous copper, which was the color of  deep vibrant orange-red. WOW the candy went from icky medicine white, to a gorgeous fun very enticing candy color we now are used to, albeit now the color is probably safe to eat. Some colors are still debatable, such as the dragees, which are banned in California.

Other things they used were mercury and lead which had pretty colors, even though they knew even then it was poisonous.

My dad was a chemist and engineer, as were my grandfather´s, so I grew up seeing the pretty chemistry elements in real life of silver liquid mercury, red iodine, heavy soft lead, etc. I knew and was told they were dangerous, but I was allowed to see them, if I was careful. I remember even now how much I wanted to actually touch the mercury, and make actual rivers of it! Or how much I wanted to sculpt the interesting lead into something other than the brick shape it was molded into. Or how pretty liquid copper was!

Nowadays you can buy entire sets of chemistry elements in the periodic table I still can list, after all these years past of memorizing it, and I think it would be so cool to own a abit of all the elements! It was enough though to see an entire set online. Plus I think it should include a rock from outer space.

Yes, I can not sleep, because yes the water is cut off and it reminds me of being without water for weeks in hurricane situations, and I am slightly stressed and panic´d about it so can´t sleep! It is supposed to be back on tomorrow, but as I forgot to take a shower before they turned it off, I am stressed i will not have water in the morning to take a shower! The water pump had to be turned off, after a bit of fiddling and moving washing machines, a bit of a palova which I don´t feel like doing at 6am if they actually do turn the water back on then, at 6am?! YEs, as wonderful as they are here with being precise, such as the bus coming within a few (2-3) minutes of route schedule time if not precisely on time, I still do not believe they will be turning the water back on at SIX AM. Tomorrow. After having switched out huge great big water pipes all the way down, when I hear absolutely nothing road work wise tonight since about 3pm. it has been as usual absolutely silent, just like it always is after about 7pm and mostly usually generally.

Quiet.

So, I really do not believe they will have finished this between 8pm of yesterday of turning off water til 6am today of turning it back on. And it is nearly Friday (well is Friday) and that is the weekend, so I am stressed we will not have water. All. Weekend!

It´s 2.15am Friday now. It is quiet. Guess I had atleast try to enjoy some sleep. Especially if tomorrow, and maybe the weekend, there will be no water flowing through any pipes anywhere around here anytime soon,)

*goodnight. Again *