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Cooking Blunders
12/16/08
Posted by: martha
Daina, it is uphill work. There's so little scope for the imagination in cookery. You just have to go by the rules. The last time I made a cake I forgot to put the flour in. I was thinking the loviliest story about you and me, Diana...Oh, it was such a pathetic tale, Diana. The tears just rained down over my cheeks while I mixed the cake. But I forgot the flour and the cake was a dismal failure. Flour is so essential to cakes you know. Marilla was very cross and I don't wonder." From "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery
I got so tickled while reading this aloud to my daughter as I just had a my own distasterous cookery experience. My daughter was trying to finish supper and the phone had rung 3 x in a row and I had to deal with customers and issues on the websites. So while I am talking away and really paying no attention she is trying to thicken the gravy. She was motioning in sign language kind of talk as I was talking on the phone and me nodding and pointing back to her...well....we ended up using BAKING POWDER instead of CORNSTARCH to thicken the gravy. I knew she had pulled down the wrong container as soon as I saw the gravy fizz up to the top of the pot in white foam! Believe me - that was some very interesting tasting gravy! We definitely messed up on following the rules of cookery in that blunder! Oh what a dismal failure dinner was that nite!
Martha ~ at the HMM
I got so tickled while reading this aloud to my daughter as I just had a my own distasterous cookery experience. My daughter was trying to finish supper and the phone had rung 3 x in a row and I had to deal with customers and issues on the websites. So while I am talking away and really paying no attention she is trying to thicken the gravy. She was motioning in sign language kind of talk as I was talking on the phone and me nodding and pointing back to her...well....we ended up using BAKING POWDER instead of CORNSTARCH to thicken the gravy. I knew she had pulled down the wrong container as soon as I saw the gravy fizz up to the top of the pot in white foam! Believe me - that was some very interesting tasting gravy! We definitely messed up on following the rules of cookery in that blunder! Oh what a dismal failure dinner was that nite!
Martha ~ at the HMM