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Originally Posted by phantastica
LOL, baffled, until I was about 20 I thought baking a cake from a box WAS baking from scratch! HA. I still haven't baked a cake from scratch.
LOL. That is a terrible story!
I started baking when I was really little--5 or 6--and I've never yet used a mix. I don't think they taste good AT ALL; you can always tell when you're eating cake from a mix, imho. Some of those things are a terrible rip-off, too. Bisquick is basically flour, baking powder and salt. I don't care how incompetent a person is in the kitchen, she can still mix flour, salt and baking powder together on her own!
Colleen: I like your criterion that food should be recognizable to your great-grandparents. That's a really good way of thinking about it.