As mentioned before, I have a project going to convert old recipes into digital format. Today I ran across a challenge.
It was a yellow scrap of paper, in my handwriting listing ingredients written in 3 sections with lines drawn between the sections.
Sum total of instructions were:
Section 1 - boil
Section 2 - add
Section 3 - cook 20 minutes.
After all - it was a small piece of paper.
The main ingredient was raspberries so I narrowed it down to our time in Alaska (where we harvested gallons of berries). Since the obvious thought pattern with fruit AND a recipe in our household is pie, cobbler or jelly/jam, I knew this list of ingredients would not have made a good, typical dessert. The milk threw me off...
I must have done it though as I don't take pen to paper unless absolutely necessary because it takes effort (where ripping out a page in a magazine - not so much effort). Besides my penmanship is horrible as evidenced by the 5 tsp or tbsp (? it's one of them) of baking bowder.
After staring at the third section of ingredients, I finally decided it looked like a dumpling recipe et voila! We occasionally made raspberry dumplings for dessert. If I remember correctly, it was pretty tasty. After all I kept the recipe!
Now, if only I had taken time to write a few more instructions.
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