On Wed 28 May 2008 09:28:30p, Janet Wilder told us...

> 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>
>

Good for you!

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Wayne Boatwright
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