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Cooking & Baking

Old Crank

(6,383 posts) Sun Nov 2, 2025, 04:35 AM Sunday

Any cooking superstitions out there? [View all]

I have two.
The first is I can't close and put away the flour container before I have mixed the liquid into pancakes. I just know I will put in too much liquid and have to pull the flour out again.

The second is my French toast batter has to be made in an old Marie Calendar's pie tin. Mine is at least 20 years old and been used on 2 continents. Perfect for putting slice bread in the batter before the pan.

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