When I was a little girl I thought the best thing about my mother baking was being allowed to lick the bowl.
'Licking the bowl' did not literally mean applying my tongue to the bowl, although I'm sure I would have given the opportunity. It meant eating up whatever was left over once the cake or biscuits went in the oven, whether on bowl, spoon or beaters.
When the electric mixer was on, my brother and I were sure to hang around waiting for Mum to say, "who'd like one of the beaters". The reply was always "Me!!!". Then would follow the argument about which one of us got the most batter on their beater.
While the world has changed in many ways since I was a little kid, wanting to 'lick the bowl' is one of the things that appears to have stayed the same.
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Unfortunately it has changed - lots of parents don't allow their children to lick the bowl anymore. I think that is very sad. My children love it however. But with 3, it can get difficult to divide up the beaters, I have to get out an extra scrapper and put some batter on it.
I agree it is great, licking one of the beaters was always a fight between myself and one of my brothers. I allow my daughter to lick the bowl if she wants too, it is not an every day occurence I feel no guilt but have been frowned upon by some mummy mafia members in the past, apparently fairy bread is a no no too?:P
Oh yeah! I have great memories of having that simple treat and of passing it down to my children who hopefully and I'm sure will pass it onto their children. It does sadden me knowing that there are children out there who have never had that little treat of licking the bowl and probaby not even making a cake from scratch. We will have to keep the tradition going :)
I still like licking the bowl and so do my girls (C:
I made cupcakes this weekend just passed, and I licked the beaters, the bowl, the wooden spoon... :)
~S.
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