"Martha" I'm Not!
I’m not a good cook or baker. (This isn’t all bad since my family not only doesn’t expect me to make meals, it prefers that I don’t!) I know why my culinary skills are less than stellar—I’ve learned this the hard way—but I can’t seem to make improvements. Old habits, especially in my case, are hard to change.
I read recipes, but I often don’t follow the steps as written. A recent example was a couple of loaves of sweet bread. Instead of doing step one…then step two…then step three, I put in the required ingredients as I took them out of the cupboard. Or so I thought. I mixed up the bread; poured it into the greased loaf pans and just as I was about to put the two loaves into the oven I realized that I had forgotten to add the three eggs (step one). The reason: the eggs were in the refrigerator; all the other ingredients were in the cupboards.