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Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 9:22 PM

Safety

So I am reading The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis to my son. There's this part where they are talking about Aslan the King of Beasts. And the children say they would be afraid to meet a lion, and the answer is of course they would be scared. "'Then he isn't safe?' said Lucy. 'Safe? . . . . Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good.'" What a concept. Something good, but not safe. These days we are sooooo obsessed with safety. All the toys and playground stuff for kids is made out of plastic and has rounded edges and is super safe. What does this teach our kids? That the world is colorful and plastic and safe. Guess what? The world is not safe. There are wicked witches out there with sugary houses that want to stuff you into ovens and eat you up. We have this crazy expectation that the world should be safe, and then sue the bejeezus out of anybody who might possibly be responsible and then they come up with seatbelt laws and OSHA videos telling you not to sniff the whiteout or use it to clean your contacts.

By adriennelibrarian at 9:22 PM

Blogger Eric said...

What do you suppose Turkish Delight is?  

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Turkish Delight

rind of 1 medium lemon
rind of 1 medium orange
1/4 cup (2 fl oz) orange juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 cups caster sugar (superfine)
1/2 cup (4 oz) water
2 tablespoons gelatine
1 cup (8 fl oz) water, extra
2/3 cup cornflour (cornstarch)
3-4 drops orange or rose flower water
red food colouring
1/2 cup icing (confectioners) sugar

Line base and sides of a deep 17 cm (6 3/4 inch) square cake tin
with aluminum foil, leaving edges overhanging. Brush foil with oil
or melted butter. Remove white pith from rinds.

Combine rinds, juices, sugar and water in large heavy-based pan.
Stir over medium heat without boiling until sugar has completely
dissolved. Brush sugar crystals from side of pan with a wet pastry
brush. Bring to boil, reduce heat slightly and boil without stirring
for 5 minutes or boil until a teaspoon of mixture dropped into cold
water forms long threads, or if using a sugar thermometer it must
reach 105 C (221 F). Combine gelatine with 1/2 cup (4 fl oz) extra
water in bowl. Stir over hot water until dissolved. In separate
bowl combine cornflour with remaining water, mix until smooth.

Add gelatine and cornflour mixtures to sugar syrup. Stir over medium heat until mixture boils and clears. Stir in flower water and a few drops red food colouring. Strain mixture into tin; refrigerate over night. When set peel off foil and cut into squares. Roll in icing sugar.  

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