Lillian’s Pressure Recipe
When we visited the Bedford plant, Lillian and Reuven came in to meet the engineers. (At first Lillian was surprisingly reluctant. I asked if she wanted to meet some engineers, and she thought, then said, “Mmmm… no.” By the time we had met five people, she was begging to meet more people; she was quite disappointed when she’d met everybody.)
One of the ways they won her over was by giving her all sorts of stuff — earplugs, a Visteon lunchbox, 12″ of vacuum tubing, safety goggles (two pairs!), and plastic caps (industrial, not milk). She amused herself by putting everything into the lunchbox, and later by creating something fairly advanced for a preschooler: a pressure chamber.
She stuck the vacuum tube and earplus into a cabinet in our hotel room, then placed a cap on the tubing. Once that was constructed, she came over to ask for ingredients to make pressure, and I quote directly, in order…
- batteries (x4)
- salt
- butter
- eggs
- sausage
- DVD for “this show” (?)
- some pressure (!)
- and a little teeny kiss
