In
the blog post about Mother Des Soye's Delicious Variation of Grandma
Brown's Baked Beans, I mentioned that some of Mom's recipes were easy
to duplicate – like the baked beans, and some were next to
impossible to copy – like her potato salad, which I will have to
try again soon and let you know what I have made of it.
One day last year I
was about to leave the lab for the day when I remembered there was a
birthday the next day and I would need to get groceries for a cake –
in fact, I needed to figure out what kind of cake to make! I walked
to the office of the guy who was going to have the birthday, and
asked if he had any special requests?
He thought for a moment and
turned the question on me - he asked what kind of birthday cake did I
like the best? I opened my mouth to answer because that is an easy
one – the cake I always asked for for my birthday when I was a kid at
home was devils food cake with homemade marshmallow frosting and a
melted unsweet chocolate square drizzled over the top.
But, if truth
be told, I have made that cake myself for other people's birthdays,
and it just isn't the same.
Why not? Because of course, there is
something missing when I make my favorite birthday cake – Mom.
Mom
putting it all together just for my birthday is the missing
ingredient; she was the specialness of it all. And really, it would
not have to be devils food, marshmallow frosting and drizzled melted
unsweet chocolate square – it would just have to be Mom for it to
be my favorite.
I
told my co-worker that my favorite birthday cake is anything put
together just for me by Mom, and since Mom's gone, he can't have my
favorite cake.
But he said that by those standards, anything I
make for him would be just as special! We had white cake with
fresh strawberries and yeah, I'll admit it, Cool Whip. And guess what? It was good!
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