Over the years, I've made all kinds of adaptations to recipes: adding or deleting ingredients, taking shortcuts, substituting one thing for another, blending recipes, adjusting cooking times. But I recently learned 2 new things about cooking:
1) You can NOT omit baking powder from a recipe for banana bread, even if you have compiled all the other ingredients before you realize you don't know where the baking powder is stored, if there is any. I think it possible that baking soda may work as a substitute, but I couldn't find that either. The banana bread looked and smelled delicious, but it ended up being heaved down into the woods as a means of destroying any evidence that it had ever existed.
2) When making a cake using a boxed mix, it is NOT necessary to obey the printed directions as to at what speeds and for how long to use the mixer. Any cupcakes made by just casually hand beating the batter for a brief time will be at least as light and fluffy as if the directions were followed. These cupcakes ended up on the table, and every one of them was eaten over a few days.
Live and learn.
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