Pumpkin Stuff

This is for you Callie. It's also another school assignment. It's my extremely embarrassing anecdote.


It was about four or five years ago when a funny, embarrassing incident happened. I was craving something sugary that day, and we didn’t really have anything sweet. So what other option do I have then to make something? Somehow I ended up choosing pumpkin cookies. I looked at the the old yellow paper that had the recipe on it. Considering how old the paper was, I could read most of it pretty well; I started putting in ingredients. All was going well when I saw how much honey it called for; 13 cups!! I was so confused! I should mention now that at the time I was home alone, otherwise I would have asked for help. Not sure what to do, I proceeded to put the honey in. I had probably put in four or five cups of honey when my sister-in-law walked in. After the usual “Hello, how are you” conversation I told her I was making cookies and my question about the honey. She was shocked and examined the old, tattered recipe and laughed as she said,”Sarah, I think that says ⅓ cup of honey!” I buried my hands in face, starting to cry. “It’s okay, I’ll help you!” she said as she went into the pantry to fix my horrible mistake. My amazing sister-in-law came out with a spice cake mix. “Would this work?” “I guess,” I replied, not caring to finish what I started. Somehow, she helped me add enough cake mix and the cookie dough ended up being pretty good pumpkin bars. Since that day I keep telling my Mom to rewrite her recipes on new paper so people can actually read them!


P.S. Callie is the sis-in-law in case you didn't get that.