The stories about forgetting to add an ingredient or adding too much of an ingredient confound me, Ladies. This is not rocket science. Just gather all the recipe ingredients on your countertop. Measure out everything you need in individual bowls, scoops, cups, soup bowls, whatever and then return ALL bulk ingredients, bags, boxes, bottles, storage containers to their pantry/refrigerator. Get them off the counter. Review the recipe and group the dry and wet ingredients when a recipe calls for mixing each type separately, or set your ingredients from right to left as the recipe calls for them. There's no possibility of adding too much of an ingredient unless you measured it wrong in the first place. And if there's something left on the counter, you can bet you forgot it. But it was right there under your nose the entire time, so how could you possibly overlook it? I've been baking for 55 years and I confess -- brag, I guess -- that these types of things have never happened to me. I envy your concentration, discipline and lack of interruptions! Susan

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