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Cooking with Children

12 October, 2010
Posted in: Boys, Daniel

The other day I made ginger nuts with the children. This is a very easy and, hitherto, failsafe recipe.

Because our kitchen is somewhat smaller than your kitchen table, I brought the bowls and ingredients into the other room and sat the children around the table to weigh them out. I left Daniel creaming in the butter while I went into the kitchen to get the golden syrup.

The texture was a bit odd when I added the golden syrup but I chucked the biscuits into the oven happily enough. That evening when my brother came around, I offered him one, “Are they undercooked or something?” he asked. I tried one myself, they were utterly vile.

Close cross-questioning of the children revealed that Daniel had eaten the butter.

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  1. Lucy says

    13 October, 2010 at 10:29

    I just love that. Mine are much the same. I find it almost impossible to follow a recipe when I am constantly interrupted by “What can I do?” You should see how my first attempt at pate turned out the other day…..

  2. katie says

    13 October, 2010 at 14:50

    Ewwwww….

    One of my Brownies basically poured in the golden syrup when we made gingerbread men (the recipe called for 2 tablespoons). Fortunately I had another preparation method up my sleeve that didn’t involve rolling out, as the mixture was almost liquid. It tasted OK, if a bit sweet.

  3. belgianwaffle says

    17 October, 2010 at 22:03

    Lucy and trying to concentrate in the supermarket…the hideousness of ending up with a trolley containing only Nutella due to a moment’s inattention.

    Katie, you sound like my sister who can always rescue these things from the jaws of disaster.

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