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Wafer tube ice cream, a truly unique take on the ice cream cone, is a fun way to cool off on these hot summer days. With a cool soft serve ice cream carefully injected into the tube, have fun holding it as you nibble your way down the delicious wafer. One will find various stands serving this special treat throughout the streets of Dongdaemun. Take a break from your shopping in the popular Dongdaemun district and grab one of these to cool off and enjoy the nearby newly built Dongdaemun Design Plaza.
How to get here:
Take the subway to Dongdaemun History and Culture Park (lines 2,4,5). Go out exit 14 and walk straight. After several minutes, you will eventually run into a vendor on the street.
This anonymous seal with a plain grid pattern was among my grandfather's law stationery stuff. I knew it was called a wafer seal but never thought why.
In the days before the Penny Post nobody used envelopes because postage was charged per sheet and an envelope was an extra sheet. The letter was just folded up and sealed with melted wax and your personal engraved seal. This practice carried on after the Penny Post, and even when envelopes did come into use they weren't ready-gummed at first.
This was all very well, but what about ordinary people who didn't have a heraldic seal, or were sending letters out and about without all the wax paraphernalia? Sealing wafers were the double-sided sticky pads of the pre-petrochemical era; little discs of a dry starchy gummy composition which you simply moistened (licked) then placed in position and pressed down to stick. A seal with a grid of points like this made sure the gum was well pressed into the paper to ensure proper adhesion.
PS — You can't buy sealing wafers any more so these are pieces cut out of sherbet flying saucers. They work well, but do you realise they now cost nearly a shilling each ?! And there's not as much sherbet as there used to be ;-(
Macro shot of a part-processed silicon wafer (that I happened to have lying around) showing details of memory blocks on an ASIC.
Taken with a Sony A77 using an 18-200mm (at 200mm) plus a reversed 50mm lens to produce this extreme macro.
Magnification factor is about 3.35x. This was just a test shot to see how well the reversed and stacked 50mm would work for macro, but it came out looking nice enough to post. Focusing was just by making minute adjustments to the tripod legs, depth of field is negligible.. must get a macro focusing rail..
Sony A77
18-200mm + reversed 50mm
200mm
ISO-400
f/40
6 seconds
As a result of attending the UN Climate Change Conference [ or cop26 ] a relative bought me a selection of Tunnock's products as I have been known to have some now and then .
Their slogan on each bar is " More then 6.000.000 of these biscuits made and sold every week "
I think I may have eaten 6.000.000 myself in my lifetime .
They are very nice .
[ the advent calendar was not involved - its made by the current Mrs. P ]
This is Wulfenite. This cluster of wafer crystals is typical of specimens found near Gleeson in Cochise County Arizona.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulfenite
"Wulfenite is a lead molybdate mineral with the formula PbMoO4. It can be most often found as thin tabular crystals with a bright orange-red to yellow-orange color, sometimes brown, although the color can be highly variable. In its yellow form it is sometimes called "yellow lead ore".
"It crystallizes in the tetragonal system, often occurring as stubby, pyramidal or tabular crystals. It also occurs as earthy, granular masses. It is found in many localities, associated with lead ores as a secondary mineral associated with the oxidized zone of lead deposits. It is also a secondary ore of molybdenum, and is sought by collectors
"A noted locality for wulfenite is the Red Cloud Mine in Arizona. Crystals are deep red in color and usually very well-formed. Wulfenite was approved as the official state mineral of Arizona in 2017.[5]""
www.minerals.net/mineral/wulfenite.aspx
"Wulfenite is a favorite among mineral collectors. It forms outstanding crystals and aggregates in a vibrant color that few minerals can match. Wulfenite forms a series with the rarer mineral Stolzite, which contains tungsten in place of the molybdenum. Wulfenite is named in honor of Austrian mineralogist Franz Xavier von Wulfen (1728-1805).
"In the U.S., virtually all notable Wulfenite localities are in the state of Arizona. Strikingly bright, reddish-orange crystals are world-famous from the Red Cloud Mine in the Trigo Mts, La Paz Co. Tabular, Orange-yellow Wulfenite came from the Rowley Mine, near Theba, Maricopa Co.; and lustrous crystals from the Old Yuma Mine, Tucson Mountains, Pima Co. Glassy, gemmy crystals have come from the 79 Mine, Hayden, Gila Co.; and nearby at the Finch Mine in a unique habit of Quartz and Chalcedony coating the Wulfenite. Tabular, platy crystals came from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co.; and the Glove Mine, near Amado, Santa Cruz Co. Dense, tabular clusters of Wulfenite were found in the Defiance Mine, Gleeson, Cochise Co.; and an old-time Wulfenite occurrence is the Hilltop Mine, Rustler Park, Cochise Co."
On a personal note. My daughter is interested in gems, minerals, rocks, and stones. We took a daytrip to Tucson. It was our first time to the shows. There are actually something like 3 dozen shows around Tucson. We went to the Tucson Convention Center for about 3 hours and then to the Kino Sports Complex for about 1.5 hours. We had hoped to get to the 22nd St show and the GIGM Show on W. Starr Pass but did not have time. I wish I had bought my tickets in advance, it would have saved about 30-40 minutes of waiting in line at the Convention Center. I'm glad I brought a Circular Polarizer to cut some of the glare of the glass exhibit cases.
www.visittucson.org/tucson-gem-mineral-fossil-showcase/
"Every year the world-renowned Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase is like a time portal, a trip around the world, and a treasure hunt all rolled into one. Every winter, more than 65,000 guests from around the globe descend upon Tucson, AZ, to buy, sell, trade, and bear witness to rare and enchanting gems, minerals, and fossils at more than 40 gem show locations across the city. If you're planning a winter visit to Tucson, you won't want to miss this three-week-long event.
"Whether you’re looking for a $5 shimmering crystal necklace or a show-stopping $200,000 crystallized rock from an exotic location, the Tucson Gem, Mineral, & Fossil Shows have something for everyone.
www.visittucson.org/blog/post/gems-and-minerals/
TGMS 2024
Tucson Gem Show 2024
Anna whipped up this ridiculously good dessert: mint leaves covered in melted chocolate, then refrigerated and served just so. And since it's only wafer thin, you can have several. Honest.
3" Wafer with Integrated Circuits.
Taken with a Raynox DCR-250 Macro Lens on a Panasonic Lumix FZ30.
I used the built-in flash and my "homemade flash diffusor"
(See large) Million upon millions of transistors on a single silicon wafer. A transistor, in itself is nothing but a switch with two states but when connected together in ever more complex topologies and ever shrinking geometries, it gives us cell phones, computers and touches every aspect of our life.
In one of my many walkabouts around the Wafer Creek Ranch, I ran across this racoon doing a little crawdad hunting in one of the creeks.
For Monday Photo Challenges and Thursday Retreads - "what can you do with cookies?" I'd recently bought some wafer cookies so I'd see if I could come up with an interesting shot of them. Hopefully my photography skills are better than my building skills!
Using an 5 inch diameter IC wafer as a subject to test some macro/micro photo techniques. This photo was with a normal 55mm lens. The wafer contains about 800-900 memory chips. Neat diffraction effect.
Detail of a wafer of microchips, taken with my macro lens.
Look at 100% to see the very small structures (conductors and microelements)
First Communion cake. Bible, Chalice, Rosary and wafers. Vanilla cake, chocolate cake, vanilla buttercream. Decorated in fondant,gumpaste and piping gel.
The type of macaque that's found in North Africa. Intelligent and is pretty effective at communicating with humans.
Sometimes I just want to bake! It's relaxing.
Toasted Coconut Wafers
1 cup unsalted butter room temp
1 1/4 cups sifted powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla, or almond extract
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg yolk
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 cup shredded coconut toasted
1 egg white, beaten
1 1/2 cups shredded coconut
Beat butter in stand mixer for 30 seconds.
Add powdered sugar, extract, and salt.
Beat until combined, scraping down the bowl.
Beat in yolk until combined.
Beat in as much flour as possible with the mixer. Stir in any remaining flour, and the 1 cup toasted coconut.
Divide dough in half.
Shape each half into an 8" long roll.
Spread 1 1/2 cup shredded coconut on parchment sheet, pastry cloth or silpat etc.
Brush rolls in egg white and roll in coconut.
Wrap each roll in plastic wrap.
Chill 2-24 hours, or until dough is firm.
Using a sharp knife cut dough into 1/4" slices.
Place 1" apart on cookie ungreased cookie sheet (I use parchment)
Bake @ 375 for 10-12 min, or until edges are browned.
Cool on sheet for 1 min, then transfer to wire rack to cool.
Makes 60.
These freeze well!
Here is a silicon wafer, partly through the process of making a couple hundred 80486 microprocessor chips. The wafer is six inches in diameter. (The red is just a cloth background. The wafer is encased in a molded plastic clamshell. However, due to years of handling, the case has lots of scratches and the wafer has lots of cracks.)
Black Magic cake (dark chocolate butter cake) with a rum flavoured Italian meringue buttercream swirl.
Finished with a generous mount of 70% dark chocolate curls & a wafer 'straw' with a chocolate centre.
he's made of licorice & toothpicks
Rachael and I got together to craft our own Christmas Candy Houses. In order to save time, we opted to craft them with graham wafer crackers instead of making gingerbread. By the end of it, we were sick of smelling and tasting sugar!
Week 6 of 52
Wanted to challenge myself a little bit this week with Food Photography.
I wasn't going to use restaurant food, but something at home that i could control.
Had my one light and reflector setup. and tried my best to arrange the elements as i would image showcasing the best elements of these White Chocolate Wafers.
still learning about how to add and control using my own lights rather than looking for good natural light. ^__^
The quintessential British summer seaside treat...the 99 ;)
A crunchy wafer cone stamped with panels of waffle pattern holding a swirl of soft vanilla ice cream with a chocolate flake stuck into the side.
No-one really knows where the name "99" comes from...
One idea is that the '99' was coined in Portobello, Scotland in 1922 by the Arcari family. They sold ice-creams with half a large 'Flake', and gave it the name because the shop was at 99 High Street.
Another possibility is that it was named in 1899 by Italian ice-cream sellers in honour of the final wave of conscripts from the First World War - "i Ragazzi del 99" - the Boys of '99. They were held in such high esteem that some streets in Italy were named in honour of them. The chocolate flake may have reminded them of the Alpine Regiment's hat, with a long dark feather cocked at an angle.
Another suggestion is that the initials of "Ice Cream", IC, form the Roman numerals for 99 (being 100 - 1). The problem of this theory is that the number 99 is not written like this but as XCIX.
One more explanation suggests that the original length of the flake chocolate bar was 99mm, but this is an unlikely explanation as the chocolate bar preceded the introduction of the metric system to the UK.
I love 99 cones..they remind me of the long hot summers that seem to fill my rose tinted childhood and of the tinkling music of ice cream vans. The fact they melted very fast and you had to constantly lick the ice cream rivulets off the outside of the cone and even the point, as the cone inevitably split and the liquid dripped through the bottom, made it a race against time to finish the 99 before it ended up in a puddle!
12th scale dolls house miniature food handmade to buy at either my etsy store
www.etsy.com/shop/sarahmaloney
or website