Posts Tagged With: scale model

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INGREDIENTS – MAIN

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½ pound strawberries (¼ pound more later)

5″ cucumber (2½” more later)

8 cups water

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INGREDIENTS – GARNISH

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¼ pound strawberries

2½” cucumber

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SPECIAL UTENSILS

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mandoline (optional)

colander

2½ quart or larger pitcher

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Serves 8. Takes 30 minutes plus 3 hours to refrigerate

PREPARATION – MAIN

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Remove stems from ½ pound strawberries. Slice strawberries as thinly as you can. Cut 5″ cucumber into slices 1/16″ to ¼” thick. Add strawberry slices, cucumber slices, and water to pitcher. Refrigerate for 3 hours. Strain contents through colander. Discard solids. This is the infused water. Return infused water to pitcher. Keeps for 3 days in refrigerator.

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PREPARATION – GARNISH

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Remove stems from ¼ pound strawberries. Slice strawberries as thinly as you can. Cut 2½” cucumber into slices 1/16″ to ¼” thick. Garnish with strawberries and cucumber slices before serving. Stir 2 times with long wooden spoon.

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TIDBITS

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1) Engineers do extensive analysis before building. This usually includes constructing a scale model and subjecting it to all sorts of tests.

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2) In this case a city, which shall remain nameless, wanted to build a bridge to tout their thriving strawberry and cucumber industries. This meant making the world’s first strawberry/cucumber bridge. Alas, the bridge failed on the very first and simple test. With the strawberry slices collapsing catastrophically under the weight of cucumber slices. (See the submerged red slices above.) A bridge that collapses under the weight of small vegetable slices is likely to collapse under the weight of vehicular traffic and even pedestrian traffic. City planners abandoned the fruit hybrid bridge.

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– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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