I have a super memory pillow I got cause I thought I would like it. Turns out it's way too high for me to sleep on my stomach. So I have a super flat pillow and then use the memory one for my back at night. Just keep two stacked on the bed. And if I wake up and need to side sleep, I can just yank that pillow up and swap at night.

I'm sure there's no one pillow that's great for multiple sleeping positions, because I roll around in my sleep (sometimes becoming a literal burrito in the sheets), and having a couple different pillows has helped so I can grab whichever one Im feeling the most that night.

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Sort of like one layer of the stroopwaffle minus the filling, in terms of consistency.

Oh interesting! I updated my comment with the recipe if you want to try. We called ours pizzelles out whole lives, but it wasn't until I had a friend who knew what they are taste them and went, ok yours taste totally different than mine, and I like them better, that I realized we'd been making a different cookie (mom had typed up the recipe for me so I hadn't seen it in the book in awhile). I like pizzelles too, but they're more cake-y than this recipe makes.

I edited my comment, it's in there!

My mom has had one since the 80s. It's a waffle maker/pizzelle maker, removable cast iron plates that you just flip. I think hers is rival, which is always surprising to me because it's not a bifl brand now as far as I know.

I keep finding them in thrift stores but they still die after a couple of years. :( One day I'll have a full-sized one again, but I currently have a mini 3 one.

I should say we don't make pizzelles though, but use the Italian cialde recipe that came with moms maker. Uses anisette and anise seed and is more batter than dough. Amazing. No flour, just sugar, water, oil, egg, anise seed and anisette, and some vanilla flavoring. I've got to pull out the recipe for our work bake off Monday!

Edit-recipe!

1 cup sugar 1 egg 2 tsp vanilla (extract usually) 2 tbsp anise flavored liqueur (anisette) 2 tbsp salad oil (I just use veggie oil) 2/3 cup water 1 1/4 cup flour (thought it didn't use any, whoops!) 1 tsp whole anise seed

Combine all except the last two ingredients. Best well to blend. Stir in the flour and anise seed. Bake as directed for pizzelles.

I haven't made them in a year and haven't made the full sized in awhile, but I want to say one batch is about 40 cookies maybe? I usually double it around the holidays.

I think we usually do regular size for about two minutes give or take, and my minis take around 45 seconds. Depends on what the humidity is doing. We rolled them when I was a kid and sprinkled powdered sugar on, but I'm lazy and so they're flat now haha.

We also eyeball the anisette and anise seeds and put as much as the spirit moves us to.

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson is about the big London cholera epedimic, and looks into transmission, urban planning, germ and other medical theory at the time, and wastewater/water systems. Another fascinating one, recommended to me from this sub probably.

Any of Erik Larson is good. In the garden of beasts I think it's called is his about the rise of the Nazis through the lens of the American ambassador to Germany. Dead Wake, about the sinking of the passenger ship the Lusitania by a German U boat in WWI. It's fascinating about how just the right combination of factors made the ship sink, let alone be fired upon.

I feel like I've seen that title streaming before. Did they turn it into a doc/miniseries or something? Is it true to the book do you know?