How to Make a Cake

I am using a very old cookbook this week, I remember my grandmother using the earlier version of it. And I came across this gem I thought would give you a laugh this week, that knowing mom laugh.

How to Make a Cake

Light oven, get out utensils and ingredients. Remove blocks and toy autos from table.

Grease pan. Crack nuts. Measure 2 cups of flour. Remove Johnny from flour, wash flour off him. Remeasure flour.

Put flour, baking powder, and salt in bowl. Get dustpan and sweep pieces of the bowl Johnny knocked on the floor. Get another bowl. Answer doorbell.

Return to the kitchen. Remove Johnny's hands from the bowl. Wash Johnny. Answer phone.

Return. Remove 1/4 inch salt from greased pan. Grease another pan. Remove Johnny's hands from the bowl. Take the greased pan and find layer of nutshells in it.

Head for Johnny who flees, knocking bowl off table. Wash kitchen floor, table, walls and dishes. Call baker. Lie down.


from the Carillon Centennial Cookbook, a compilation of recipes submitted by eastern Manitoba Canada cooks to two local papers. This cookbook is actually a compilation of 2 earlier supplements complied by the paper and was published in 1974.