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Archive for November 29, 2009
How to decorate name plates made of test tubes?
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Test tubes are available online at a very low price. One can get 100 test tubes for about 20€.
Test tubes can be decorated with special glass colors, e.g. Glass Color BodyLine.
When I decorated name plates made of test tubes, I dipped the test tubes into dark violet glass color. To dry the test tubes they were installed on wood sticks. It took a very long time to dry them… at least a few days.
Then names were printed on paper (in the right dimensions), were cut out and subsequently inserted into the painted test tubes.
To fill up the test tubes I used heart-shaped sugar and cotton.
In the end, test tubes were decorated with a white ribbon.
Annotation
This is a really simple way to decorate name plates for special occasions. And it’s not expensive. But it really takes a long time for the glass color to dry and it does not smell very healthy.
And of course, one should take care of the test tubes. They can easily break when handling them too harsh.
Vanilla cakes
0Ingredients for 11 pieces
300g flaky pastry
250g whipped cream
250ml milk
Marrow of a vanilla bean
1 package of vanilla pudding powder
2 egg yolk
50g sugar
Preparations
1. Mix whipped cream, 200ml of milk and marrow of vanilla bean and boil it up. Mix 50ml of milk, vanilla pudding powder, egg yolk and sugar and add it to the previous mixture. Boil it up again and then let it cool down to a lukewarm temperature.
2. Cut out 11 circles of flaky pastry (11cm Ø) and put them into pre-lubricated muffin forms. Then add the vanilla cream.
3. Insert them in the pre-heated oven (230°C) on the lowest rail for 20 minutes.
Annotation
This recipe is really simple. But beware of taking the cakes out of the muffin form. Of course they are hot and the vanilla content is quite fluid at this time. So beware of taking them out slowly or elsewise they could fall and all the vanilla content is gone 
How many oranges do you need for 1L orange juice?
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Well, we tried it out yesterday… we prepared 3kg (!) of oranges to get 1 L of orange juice.
Annotation
Better drink it as soon as possible. Not only because of the vitamins It’s very sweet and delicious in the first place but when you wait a few hours it will taste bitter.