Our cooking or baking mistakes we can laugh at now.

[Marthe48]

16. I was a teen, new to baking bread

I found a recipe for onion quick bread that I thought my Mom would like. I used whatever measuring cup that was in the cupboard, and since I wasn't into math at the time, used double the amount of water the recipe called for. The instructions said to bake until a knife came out clean. After baking it for the whole afternoon, and getting a gummy center surrounded by a crust about an inch thick and hard as a rock, I took it out of the oven. About the only good thing you could say about this result was that it smelled like onion. My Mother, God love her, said it was wonderful, the best bread she ever ate. I saw her eating a piece, but the rest of the loaf mercifully disappeared while I was at school.