Buttering Up Family Life
Blog Entry: Tuesday 01 Sep 2009
“My mother and grandmother before her are/were both fantastic cake-bakers, to the point where my children, to distinguish their two grandmas, have one “cake grandma” whose visits are eagerly awaited with rumbling tummies,” explains Clair. “Since having children myself, this latent cake-baking has surfaced in full force and along with it one habit I have always taken for granted but only recently realised not to be standard domestic practice.”
“After opening a packet of butter, we have always saved the butter wrapper in the fridge ready for greasing tins and dishes – it provides the perfect amount of butter for the purpose in its own easy-to-use, no mess dispenser, along with the smug feeling of not wasting any traces of lovely butter. The only downside is, following any lull in baking activities, my husband’s annoyance if he is met with a confetti of butter wrappers laying ambush in the fridge door.”
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