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]

Way to go! I'd eat green and purple cookies. But then, it's pretty evident that I never quite grew up. :-)

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

For St Patrick's Day I add green food coloring to my bread. It comes out looking like it came out of Zardoz.
And the one story I remember was when we decided to help Mom by washing the kitchen floor. I was two (who can read?). I got the box out from under the kitchen sink and put the contents in water, just like Mommy. Only it wasn't the floor washing powder, it was blue dye. We moved out of that house not to long after, so I have no memory of what the floor looked like after I was done. I do remember washing the floor though. Strange what bits you remember from that time.