Posts Tagged With: Shea stadium

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INGREDIENTS

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½ teaspoon brown mica powder

1 tablespoon isopropyl alcohol

2 pounds shea butter base

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 teaspoon cinnamon essential oil

isopropyl alcohol

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SPECIAL UTENSIL

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soap mold

spray bottle

soap slicer (optional)

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Makes 10½ bars, 1″ wide. Takes 3 hours.

PREPARATION

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Add brown mica and 1 tablespoon isopropyl alcohol to small mixing bowl. Mix with fork until well blended.

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Cut shea butter base into 1″ cubes. Add shea butter base to large glass measuring cups. Melt base in 30 second intervals. Stir after every time. Add pale brown mica powder/isopropyl mix and cinnamon essential oil. Stir with knife until well blended. Let sit for 15 minutes. (This inhibits cinnamon from settling to the bottom of the soap mold.) Add cinnamon. Mix with knife until well blended.

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Spray silicon mold with isopropyl alcohol. Pour melted soap into soap mold. If desired, lightly spray bubbles with isopropyl alcohol to make them disappear. Let soap sit for 3 hours. Use soap slicer to cut soap into slices 1″ wide.

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Let sit for 3 hours. Use soap slicer to cut soap into bars 1″ wide.

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TIDBITS

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1) The New York Mets played baseball in Shea Stadium from 1964 to 2008. Most people agree that Shea Stadium was named after William A. Shea the man who led the effort to bring National League baseball back to New York.

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2) Culinary historians disagree. They maintain the stadium got its name because it was built mainly from cinnamon. Indeed, culinary engineers tell us that cinnamon sticks when subjected to enough pressure will be stronger than steel. Unfortunately, the cost of producing super strong I beams and pillars out of cinnamon proved to be prohibitive. All future stadiums would employ steel for all sorts of things. Now you know.

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