Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Wed 28 May 2008 07:12:32p, Janet Wilder told us...
>
>> Nexis wrote:
>>
>>> What are your favorite family recipes?
>> This isn't a recipe but a family story told to all the girls when they
>> learned to bake.
>>
>> Once there was a handsome prince who traveled through his country
>> looking for a thrifty wife. Not just any pretty girl would do. She had
>> to be thrifty.
>>
>> One day he came to a village where all the young maidens were baking
>> cakes. He stopped at one house and asked to lick the bowl. The young
>> woman gave him most of the batter. He thanked her and went to the next
>> house where he asked to lick the bowl and was given another huge amount
>> of batter. This went on in all the houses in the village where the
>> maidens were baking.
>>
>> On his way out of town, he passed a poor hut where he saw a young woman
>> mixing a bowl of batter. He went inside and asked her if he could lick
>> the bowl. She scraped everything she could from the bowl into her cake
>> pan and gave him a pretty-much empty bowl to lick.
>>
>> The prince immediately asked her father for her hand in marriage and
>> they got married and lived happily ever after.
>>
>> The moral of the story is (I think) if you never waste food, you will
>> marry a handsome prince.
>>
>> My mother told me the story. She said that her own mother had told it to
>> her. I imparted it to my daughter and to my granddaughters.
>>
>> Not exactly a family recipe, but definitely a family cooking treasure.
>>
>>
>
> It is indeed! Did you marry a handsome prince? :-)
>

Both were handsome, but the first one was a frog in disguise. The second
one IS a prince. <g>

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Janet Wilder
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