Souvenir with a surprise: nuts with predictions and wishes

It is for sure not known when people first began to predict the future, but we can assume that it was still in prehistoric times. At first such rituals could only be dealt with by the select ones, and later people realized that it was possible to rely on the case. So there was a kind of predictions, which is done by extracting a leaflet with a variant of the development of events from an armful of the same, but with other inscriptions. The Chinese went further, deciding to combine business with pleasure. As a result, local cooks began offering cookies with predictions. At the end of the 19th century, they found themselves in Europe, where the idea found a new, "Christmas" embodiment. Since there was no question of shopping Christmas tree toys, they were made from improvised means, including gilding cones and nuts. The latter and became a case for notes. If you want to please your loved ones, it's quite easy to make nuts with predictions by your own hands, especially if you take the advice presented below.

What will be required

To make New Year's nuts with predictions, you will need:

• Medium, or even better, large walnuts, since small ones do not crack badly, and it is difficult to place a note in their shell;
• Glue (transparent "Moment", for carpentry work or from "pistol");
• Gold or silver aerosol paint or usual, which is applied with a brush;
• Predictions printed on the printer are better on paper of gold color;
• Small sweets;
• Thin satin ribbons;
• Tools (tea spoon, knife and scissors).

How to make nuts with predictions: master class

Making a New Year's surprise is done in the following order:

• Walnut put on the board;
• The pointed blade of the knife is inserted into the slot located at the top of the fruit;
• Press and gently knock on the handle until the nut breaks into 2 halves (note that during this procedure some of the shells will inevitably become unusable);
• A teaspoon (not a knife!) Scrape the contents;
• Repeat the same procedures with other nuts;
• Lay out all the shells on a piece of cardboard so as not to confuse the halves;
• They take them out on a balcony and paint with an aerosol can twice, with an interval of 15-20 minutes;
• If there is a desire, turn the shells with well-dried paint and "gild" inside (instead, you can glue a piece of beautiful fabric, for example, velvet);
• Wrapped in a tight tube prediction printed on the printer;
• Bandage with a thin ribbon;
• If the nut is large enough, you can put a candy in it, for example, a chocolate coated table with colored glaze.

Now it remains to glue the nuts with predictions. In this case, if they are going to hang on the tree, then you need to put a loop of satin ribbons between the shells. Also it is worth experimenting with the decor of nuts, for example, sticking on them bows, sequins, asterisks, rhinestones, etc.

There is another way: you can put nuts inside the bags of organza and tie it with a beautiful braid.

"Peanut" version in the traditional Chinese style

Do you want to be original in everything? Then try to make nuts with peanut predictions. For this you need:

• Open the shell and extract the contents;
• Paint both halves on both sides with gold acrylic paint;
• Put inside a piece of paper with predictions and wishes;
• On a thin, but rigid wire strung multicolored beads;
• End lay down to get the head of a snake (you can glue two beads of dark color, as an eye);
• To connect the shells;
• Wind the wire.

For beauty, you can fix on its tail snake small brush made of red silk threads.

Edible nuts with predictions: recipe

Such a delicious surprise is easy to make. The main thing is to have a special walnut-frying pan at hand, without which nothing will turn out.

For the preparation of cookies will be required:

• Half-can of condensed milk;
• 3.5 cups of flour;
• 2 large chicken eggs;
• 1 teaspoon baking powder or soda, slaked vinegar;
• a pinch of salt;
• 250 g of butter;
• 0.5 t of sugar;
• A little sunflower oil to lubricate the frying pan.

Preparation

Sweet nuts with predictions are prepared this way:

• Beat eggs with sugar;
• Add pre-melted butter;
• All mix well;
• Pour in salt and put the hydrated soda;
• In small portions, stirring constantly, add flour;
• Knead the dough with your hands;
• Form a ball from it;
• Put in the refrigerator for half an hour;
• While the dough is coming, the skillet-hazel is smeared with sunflower oil;
• Put it on the stove so that it warms up well;
• From the test cut off small pieces and mold balls;
• Pawn the cells in the pan;
• Close the hazel and for 40 seconds strongly press its handles so that the "shells" get the right shape;
• Cook the first batch of cookies;
• Cut off excess dough from the ready halves while they are still hot;
• Also come with the rest of the test.

How to make a surprise nuts cookie

When all the halves of the nuts are ready, we begin to make "grease". To do this, boil the condensed milk for 3 hours, lowering the metal jar into the boiling water.

Next on the printer print out the predictions in the frames, cut them and fold them into tight tubes. Of the foil, preferably golden in color, small squares are cut out. Wrap in them wishes, like candy in candy wrappers.

Now you have everything you need to make nuts with predictions.

Next, a note embedded in a foil is put into one shell, they are smeared at the edges with boiled condensed milk, from which a few crumbs obtained from the scraps of the dough were pre-mixed. Connect the halves of the nut. The same is done with all the others.

If there is a desire, you can also wrap the nuts in foil and, attaching the ribbons, hang on the Christmas tree.

Nuts for the wedding

Such souvenirs with a surprise can also be used to organize a competition during a banquet on the occasion of their marriage.

As you know, at weddings, the guests are usually the authors of wishes, and the newlyweds are the addressees. So, the bride and groom can prepare a nice gift for friends and family by putting a nut in the beautiful box or bag on the table next to the appliance. At the end of the evening, at the request of the toastmaster, guests can take turns to open them and read aloud what the initiators wanted them to do.

Text of predictions for nuts

The contents of notes that are hidden inside the shells must correspond to the theme of the holiday, on the occasion of which a surprise is prepared. Of course, all predictions should be comic, and, if possible, with humor.

For example, in the "New Year" nuts can be written such predictions:

• Your wallet will not be empty: he will know the money every day crunching!
• You will live happily all year round, drink, eat, walk, do not know cares!
• Ahead of you waiting for the New Year's salute and a permanent home cosiness!

It is not necessary that the prediction-prediction in the nuts were in the verses, so they can be composed even by those who can not invent rhymes. So, your loved ones, perhaps, will be pleased to read such predictions:

• You will soon get acquainted with the goldfish. True, it will be fried and stuffed with rice ...
• You are waiting for a huge prize in the lottery, which you give to charity.
• From now on, your kindness guarantees you success.
• It's time for you to rest, so that life turns to you face, etc.

Predictions for nuts for the New Year, for a wedding or for another occasion to come up is not difficult. The main thing is to try not to offend anyone and raise everyone's spirits.

Now you know how to make nuts with surprises in various ways, and you will be able to surprise and please your loved ones. By the way, nothing prevents before the New Year's feast to invest in one of them an engagement ring, and then in the presence of all relatives to make an offer to the beloved girl.