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Do you remember when you were learning to cook?
The thrill of mastering a recipe?
The nervous butterflies in your tummy when you pulled something out of the oven for the first time, hoping, praying that it turns out correctly?
The double and triple checking of ingredients and measurements?
OH! You didn’t double and triple check the recipe ingredients when you first started cooking?
I did — except this ONE time — this time that 20 years later I STILL hear about.
Okay y’all — truthfully, I measured everything I just um……
Well, I was making my Dad’s Raisin Bran muffins which were my favorite favorite thing ever for breakfast and snacks. I was SO confident that I could do it just like he did. I just knew that my muffins would be light and moist and filled with plump raisins and delicious — just as good, if not better than my Dad’s.
{sigh} to be young and cocky confident 
Everything was going perfectly until young teenage me added 3 Tbsp of baking powder instead of 3 tsp of baking soda.
Let that sink in for a moment
This was literally, a recipe for disaster.
The resulting (I hesitate to call them muffins) muffin shaped imposters were horribly bitter and completely inedible and I was devastated.
I’ve had multiple other kitchen disasters in my day but this one — this one stands out to me as my BIGGEST kitchen disaster of all time. Maybe because it was my first, or because it taught me the lesson that I should always read a recipe completely and measure out my ingredients carefully beforehand but mostly because those were hands down the nastiest muffins EVER.
Now, even when I’m distracted — you can bet I triple check my ingredients AND my measurements!!!
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One of MANY uh-oh’s: A curry beef dish that I had made several times to much praise…I decided to make it for my mom, and I must have used tablespoons vs. teaspoons for the hot curry paste. I simply couldn’t eat it. My head wanted to blow right off. But the underlying flavor was still so wonderful, my mom couldn’t NOT eat it. Bless her.
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That baking soda/baking powder thing sounds so similar to me. I recently did the same thing and just totally forgot to add whichever one it called for. I had a very large pancake, a very large, tasty, chocolate pancake to take to the get together I was rushing to. No time for do-over. And again, this was just this past year, so I don’t have age to blame it on.
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Well, at least you remembered to add that particular ingredient. I did the same thing as a teen except I did NOT add either baking soda or powder and my cake would NOT rise. I made the same cake not once, not twice, but three times before I realized that the flour at my aunt’s house was NOT self-rising! Apparently, that makes quite a difference!
Big fan of the self-rising flour!!!
Cute story. I mean, baking soda… baking powder…. what really is the difference?
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