[Sca-cooks] Why not just water in Mac and cheese

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

Yes.

My mother told me that the first cake mixes had everything in them, you 
just needed to add water. And they didn't sell well, found women didn't 
like them - and one reason was that they didn't feel they were baking. 
They tried having the customer add the egg and oil, and they took off... 
Drove me nuts in college, the only time I ever really used cake mixes, 
as the whole reason I bought a mix was that I didn't have a stock of 
ingredients!

Now, her mother didn't like to bake. When Mom was a little girl she 
wanted to bake a cake, and her mother went to the pantry and handed her 
a box. (Sometime in the mid to late 1920's, this was...) She said she 
never could figure out why she had it, how long she had it, or what she 
planned to do with it. Mom followed the directions, baked something that 
I gather could easily have been used as plaster patch, and then happily 
ate the icing and left the cake... she was pretty little...


AEllin


Stefan li Rous wrote:
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> 
> I think they leave you to add the milk, instead of water, for the same 
> reason they have you add an egg to other food mixes instead of just 
> water - That way you can feel, or at least claim, that you "cooked" the 
> dish. After all you are the cook...
> 
> Stefan
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