Baking a Cake from Scratch
This story happened back in about 1956 at the time Jana, my niece, was born and Mary Ruth was in the hospital.
Sara, my other sister, who is now deceased, and I went down to Mary Ruth's home to stay with Steve, her boy, while she was in the hospital.
We decided to make a cake for when she came home. We dug out a recipe and all the ingredients for the cake. Mary Ruth had just got a brand new mixer not long before that and we were anxious to try it out.
Neither of us had a mixer so we were rookies with using one. We quickly read the directions for using it and started the process. We were doing fine getting all of the ingredients together and mixing them in. Then it was time to pour the batter into the cake pan. That is when the disaster began. That was when we wished we had chosen a white cake instead of chocolate!
Sara lifted the mixer out of the batter and suddenly there was cake batter all over the kitchen, the ceiling, the cabinets, the floor and on ourselves! Later Mary Ruth told us that we were supposed to turn the mixer off before we took it out of the batter! Or at the least to slowly lift the beaters out until they stopped throwing the batter out. Well, duh!
At any rate, we spent the next hour cleaning up the kitchen. We did bake the rest of the batter into a cake and ended up with a smaller pretty well constructed cake.
We often laugh about that mess from so long ago. I always think of it when I get out my mixer to make a cake.
posted by kyra lafain @ 11/08/2009 12:30:00 PM
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