A recipe for disaster?
Last week, I decided to bake my favorite dessert given to me by my mother called Cherry Kuchen, I thought it would be nice to take it in to share with our classmates and our professors. The next day, one of the students in our class said that he loved the dessert so much that he would like the recipe. This student said it would not be a problem for me to write it in English, just as long as I can explain it in French. So, over the week-end I wrote out the recipe in English and on Monday morning I explain how to make it in French to him.
The next day, this student came into to class telling us that he had made the Kuchen. I of course asked "so, how did it go?", he said to my surprise " it tasted different and it looked different, the cake had raised much more than mine", unlike the way mine was made, it does not raise much at all. As we began to speak to each other in French about it and how he was making the cake, he said that he had really mixed, mixed and mixed the batter with an electric hand mixer! Oh dear, well that explains it then, I had left out that one little detail. Any time I make this Cherry Kuchen dessert, I only hand mix it! We all had a great laugh about it.
The next day, this student came into to class telling us that he had made the Kuchen. I of course asked "so, how did it go?", he said to my surprise " it tasted different and it looked different, the cake had raised much more than mine", unlike the way mine was made, it does not raise much at all. As we began to speak to each other in French about it and how he was making the cake, he said that he had really mixed, mixed and mixed the batter with an electric hand mixer! Oh dear, well that explains it then, I had left out that one little detail. Any time I make this Cherry Kuchen dessert, I only hand mix it! We all had a great laugh about it.
