There are some mighty creative people in the world: scientists, artists, inventors, and so on. But for my money, no one can beat a 5 year old boy for sheer volume of ideas. Most of which are bad...
One example: in the 30 minutes that I was trying to make pancakes for dinner the other day, Luke had the idea and executed a recipe for "Carolina Wren Cake." It started with some yeast, sugar and water from an earlier "experiment". He added oats, sunflower seeds, 3 tablespoons corn syrup, some flour and cinnamon. (Luke was looking for the cinnamon and picked out the chili powder, cumin and coriander. I managed to convince him that those were not the spices he was looking for.) I added a few more tablespoons of flour and some salt, he kneaded it, we let it rise and baked it at 350 for about 20 minutes. He was a bit disappointed that there wasn't enough for rolls, but it was actually quite tasty. The biggest problem is that none of the kids will eat it... =)
One example: in the 30 minutes that I was trying to make pancakes for dinner the other day, Luke had the idea and executed a recipe for "Carolina Wren Cake." It started with some yeast, sugar and water from an earlier "experiment". He added oats, sunflower seeds, 3 tablespoons corn syrup, some flour and cinnamon. (Luke was looking for the cinnamon and picked out the chili powder, cumin and coriander. I managed to convince him that those were not the spices he was looking for.) I added a few more tablespoons of flour and some salt, he kneaded it, we let it rise and baked it at 350 for about 20 minutes. He was a bit disappointed that there wasn't enough for rolls, but it was actually quite tasty. The biggest problem is that none of the kids will eat it... =)
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