The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #139053 Message #3186418
Posted By: Bill D
12-Jul-11 - 11:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Cooking - finding out stuff by accident
Subject: RE: BS: Cooking - finding out stuff by accident
The best surprise I ever heard...or tasted... was years ago when I was renting a basement apartment from friends. One day the lady upstairs called down to me..."Bill? You wanta try something I just baked?"
So I go up and she has this cake pan with a nice, brown, good-smelling stuff in it. She cut me a piece, and I bit into this warm, sorta 'nutty', cake-like chunk which was not quite like anything I could identify....but sorta like a lot of other things. It was really good!
"So," she says, "I really wanted to bake something, but had no real mixes or regular ingredients... so I took a box of "Jiffy" cornbread mix, and a box of IGA (store brand) buttermilk pancake mix and stirred them together with about the quantity of liquids they suggested!"
That was over 45 years ago, and I have 'intended' to try to replicate that recipe ...someday... maybe I will. ;>)