Date Bar Fiasco

[cjsmith]

I tried to make date bars from a boxed-up mix thingy when I was maybe six. The box contained a beige powder and a dark brown powder; I was supposed to add, I think, nothing more complicated than water, and then form the resulting things into layers in a square pan and bake them. How hard could it be?

So I add two cups of water to the light beige powder and three tablespoons of water to the dark brown powder...

...oops...

Okay. I know heat helps things dry out, right? Remember, I'm like six. I put the big plastic bowl with the "crust mixture" (now very liquid) on the warm spot on the counter, above the running dishwasher. Minutes pass. No improvement. I put it in the nice warm oven. I smell something funny. I pry the big plastic bowl OFF the oven rack -- thank goodness it hadn't melted through, yet! Eventually I decide there's not a thing I can do but mix both the glops together and make drop cookies.

My dad said he liked them. I think he was being nice.

For years, that bowl had grooves on the underside, from the oven rack.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh nooooooo! Did it explode? :-)

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

It looked like something that would have caused Lucille Ball to go "WaAaah!"

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of Calvin and Hobbes.

Dad, on phone in office: "Calvin, don't call me at work unless it's an emergency!"

Calvin, at home sitting on kitchen counter, hanging up phone, looking at rising water below him: "This should qualify in another fifteen minutes."

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Gad, I miss Calvin and Hobbes!