Paula has asked us to share something we love, for each day of the month of February.
For my # 26 love, I choose;
Baking
As a teenager, I found the well-loved and often used cookbooks that belonged to my late mother. They had such beautiful pictures of cakes, breads, cookies and desserts that I was tempted to try my hand at making them.
In those days, we had very limited ingredients available in my country but I made substitutions and tried everything that I could from those pages. I became quite good at making cakes and breads. In fact when I got married, I didn’t knew how to prepare regular meals, but I could make/bake very nice cakes and desserts.
This one is from my year of birth!
A newer version!
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#Keepitalive
#Love
Keep it alive 
This is one of those things where I just can’t… or else!
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We all have our limitations. Better leave it to others. 😜
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The worst of baking was that I used to add twice the amount of the things I liked especially – which were always the bad things!
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Oops, that would be bad!
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I like baking better than regular cooking, too. I do have that Betty Crocker cook book (2nd photo) and it’s come in handy many times over the years. 🙂
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Mine are pretty worn out by now. My daughter often consults it for recipes.
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I went through a phase of baking in my teens too. Cookies and fresh bread! Yum. I learned how to cook regular stuff by watching my mother. Then experimented on my own. My ex taught me a few things too, stuff he’d learned from his mother and grandmother.
Your grandmother or aunties didn’t teach you? Tsk tsk😉😂💕
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My grandmother taught me regular traditional cooking but I never became a fan of it. I’d still bake even now as compared to cook.
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Wow. Memory lane. I remember having a Betty Crocker cookbook around the house as a child. It was a huge book! I too love baking. So much fun. 😊
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It is fun and with Betty Crocker, most things came out right too. Thanks 🙏
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Ah, yes, agreed. Welcome. 🙏
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😉
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I forgot to add this one to my month of love!
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Still a day to go in February!
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My mom had a similar cookbook to the old one there. Can’t go wrong with Betty Crocker!
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Yes, it always comes out good.
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