Sheldon wrote:
> Dee Randall wrote:
>
>>"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
>>
>>>Mom let me fry my first egg at age 5. :-)
>>>
>>>She helped me of course.......
>>>--
>>>Om.
>>
>>Probably told this befo
>>Went to a neighbor's house (far away - in the country) for a visit. A girl
>>my age (about 5) asked me if I wanted to go into the kitchen with her and
>>make some eggs. It was a wooden stove -- no heat was on -- and there was a
>>large cast-iron skillet filled 2/3 full of bacon grease. She cracked some
>>eggs into it and we stood there watching for them to cook. I'll never
>>forget it.
>
>
> There's absolutely no reason a five year old can't cook. There are
> three year olds that can play golf better than many 40 year olds who
> have been playing for 25 years... seen it for myself just last summer
> at a special tournament at Thunderheart, amazing.
>
> I learned to bake bread with a giant coal stove at my grandmother's
> side, gigantic round loaves of Russian Black bread with crust a half
> inch thick, dropped from a first floor window could kill a man, I was
> three. There was no packaged bread then, you either baked your own
> from scratch or paid exhorbitant prices at bakeries, like 5¢/loaf. My
> grandmother ran a tourist home in the borshst belt, what nowadays is
> called a B & B... only then there were all year boarders, she prepared
> three hearty meals a day for about twelve adults and me. I haven't had
> bread that good since, probably because the dough rose all night under
> the sheets in my grandmother's bed. Any three year old can bake bread
> once shown how... but to do it well one must have natural talent.
>

Yum the bread sounds good - and it sounds like somewhere that would be
wonderful to have dinner.

As for kids cooking - you are right...my kids (3 and 5 ) help me in the
kitchen all the time. I think the only thing slowing them down is my
being very cautious with them getting hurt (burned, cut, falling off the
stool etc etc) My 3 year old can make her own scrambled eggs.
Beginning to end. All I do is turn on the burner and give her a little
help with cracking the eggs. Other than that - she really has it down.
They love to cook and I enjoy having someone in the kitchen to share
with (my husband DOES NOT cook - anything - ever lol) They also love to
watch cooking shows on TV. Another fun thing. It doesn't really matter
to them who it is (or what they are making) My oldest prefers Alton
Brown and Paula Deen - they youngest likes Rachael Ray (I think because
she is sort of like a preschool teacher with all the grinning)

*shrug* I hope the kids learn to cook and enjoy it

Roberta (in VA)