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pan. Bake as above. For potato chunks, roll potato color Fimo into snake about 1/8 inch diameter. With X-Acto knife, cut snake on slight diagonal into 1/8 inch pieces. Bake as above.
Pour small amount of resin into paper cup. Add just a touch of yellow transparent dye. Add catalyst and stir thoroughly. A "false bottom" of a bit of Fimo may be pressed into pot, reducing amount of chicken bits and vegetables needed. Pour a little catalyzed mixture into pot. Sprinkle in some chicken pieces, vegetables and noodles. With toothpick, arrange as desired and drizzle on a bit more resin, if necessary. Sprinkle on some finely ground parsley flakes. Allow to harden undisturbed overnight.
CASTING RESIN
For detailed modeling compound instructions, please read the following articles
in "Mary's Menus":
2) Stout Hearted Fare
Early settlers brought these
Old World dishes to America
FEBRUARY 1986
CHICKEN POTPIE
Photo by Mary Eccher
Tools and Materials
Resin and catalyst
Yellow transparent dye
X-Acto knife
Paper cup, toothpicks
and stirring stick
Finely crushed parsley flakes
Miniature cooking pot
Fimo --- white tinted with champagne for chicken pieces, transparent tinted with ochre for potatoes, orange for carrot slices, transparent tinted with green for celery pieces, transparent slightly tinted with yellow for noodles.
Roll thin snakes of chicken-color, carrot-color, and celery-color Fimo approximately 1/16 inch in diameter. Bake in oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes. For chicken pieces, slice snake diagonally with X-Acto knife. For vegetables, cut thin straight slices. For potpies or noodles, roll noodle color on flat surface until very thin. With X-Acto knife, cut 1/8 inch strips first vertically then horizontally. Curl each noodle slightly before dropping onto baking
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