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I'll never forget to include you again....
For although you may be tiny and white,
You apparently put up a great baker's fight.
Without you, brownies and breads don't rise!
Without you in a dish, I can hardly believe my eyes!
Foods turn to mush and they don't look good.
Desserts just don't come out like they should.
You and your cousin "soda" only share a teaspoon or two.
But wow, the consistency fails without either of you.
Like this morning when my blueberries melted away
And our muffins looked like vomit on a sick day.
I realized my mistake as the oven heated the room.
The end result was a disaster. Without you, we are doomed.
So baking powder, my love, a chef's right hand.
Now I see the error. Now I truly understand.
You are the greatest tool for a baker's delights.
I see how special you are. I see the light.
For future, I'll never forget to add dashes of your powder.
I see your strengths now and I've never felt prouder.
Come with me. Let's bake a loaf of bread.
Let's show the world how we forge ahead.
Thank you for teaching me this very important tip.
Now let's eat something that will go straight to my hips.
Exhibit A - today's baking failure: blueberry mush (a.k.a. vomit) muffins.
The baking powder mocks my muffins! He says there is no such life without him!
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Have you ever forgotten a vital baking ingredient, even a tiny one, that completely changed the outcome of your recipe? Share your cooking disasters with me in the comments!
6 comments:
I've done the exact same thing you did...forgot the baking powder. I wondered why the batter never rose but stayed goopy and flat.
I've had plenty of cooking disasters and that was one of them.
Good poem!
You are so hilarious! They do NOT look like "vomit" muffins...they sort of look like biscuits though. We must be on the same wave length as far as the "hot pocket" thingy. A few weeks ago, I was reading one of my favorite southern food bloggers (Southern Plate.com) anyway, she made some meat pocket things with crescent rolls. So I had some leftover pizza dough and decided to make pizza pockets...OH MY WORD! They were so good. Anywho, I was going to make them tomorrow and post the recipe in a few weeks. You can check out Christy's post though...she got loads of other "innards" ideas in the comments...
http://www.southernplate.com/2010/05/campfire-meat-pies-easy-weeknight-supper-with-brady.html
Great poem!
Believe me...I've forgotten many an ingredient while baking. And those muffins don't look THAT bad!
I love how you share your baking mishap with us. I have lost track of my count of teaspoons of an ingredient or two. I was probably talking or lecturing a child at the time. I need to be in the baking zone or who knows what catastrophe will pop out of the oven!
I've had plenty of cooking disasters and that was one of them.
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I would have still eaten those muffins! Does the baking powder affect the flavor? If not, all of those vomit muffins would have been eaten by me or someone I know.
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