Apr. 6th, 2025

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I had a visit with M., because she was going to go see the Minecraft movie later. It was drizzling, so we did not walk. I did go around the block substantially later in the day with R.

Someone came to pick up the Jelly Comb keyboard and mouse, so that was nice. Someone else came and got the box of partially used nail polishes. I put it on top of a plastic lego box top, so the container wouldn’t get wet, and the person took that, too. *shrug* I don’t really care.

I got the pictures off the wall in the upstairs hall (prepping for construction traffic). I also got the holiday cards off the mantel (I mean, it’s almost Easter, right? LOL). All those little tasks that aren’t so little.

I made pizzelles today, which got me thinking about iron again. I think we all knew that Bessemer mostly stole other people’s ideas and then refined (har de har har) them. Sometimes the way he stole them was by reverse engineering them. Anyway. Today I learned about Benjamin Huntsman, and it’s pretty clear at this point that the stuff we usually attribute to Bessemer and Kelly probably all came from India (Tamil Nadu and similar), where they had been making wootz for centuries. I also learned that Damascus steel used wootz, which makes sense. The urbanites got the steel from India and probably got the charcoal from Europe and made magnificent swords. This just goes to show the value of trade and technique.

I was thinking about all this because apparently crustulum isn’t something that was made up by the Duo Latin course, but is actually the predecessor of the pizzelle. And so I wanted to know the metallurgical improvements that allowed them to waffle the flat iron. I have not fully answered that question, but I am sneaking up on it by increments. Also, I think it’s kind of weird that people make pizzelles with butter. Given the story, it had to have started out with oil (which is what I used, because I wanted to eat least try them).

I have a pizzelle making device because I ran across a super cute one on a list of holiday gift list so I put it on my wish list and someone got it for me. And then I didn’t open it until A. asked if we could make pizzelles (altho of course she couldn’t remember what they were called nor did she remember me getting a pizzelle maker for the holidays). Having used it to make white flour, egg, oil, sugar, vanilla, baking powder pizzelles, I am now considering alternative formulations. Specifically, I’m looking at my sourdough starter and having complicated thoughts.

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