My Mum and a Great Aunt
Just remembered this one.

My Mum mentioned to one of my great Aunts that a cake recipie that she was thinking of trying out said that you had to use brown sugar.

So a few weeks later, my Great Aunt Marge presented my Mum with what must have been a carrier bag full of sachets of brown sugar. She had literally gone around having the odd cup of coffee and filling her handbag with sachets of brown sugar.

I can just imagine Mum's face lighting up! She must have spent hours opening up all of those tiny sachets, emptying them into a container so that it would be easy to weigh out.

Now, I didn't know about this until I was eating a slice of this cake and Mum recounted the dilema of not wanting to waste money on buying more than one sort of sugar because of course it that be foolishness.

The worst of it is this, she must have had about half a kilo left after she had made the cake.
(lympicita_ie, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 22:24, Reply)