Susan - Your article and all the comments that follow are WONDERFUL! Love it! I'm experimental in my cooking and baking, so I've made my share of mistakes over the years and my family is so generous about not complaining when something turns out awful. (I think they figure that I make enough good stuff to balance it all out!) My favorite one though is one my kids did a few years ago. They were making pecan snowball cookies for the holidays. They had doubled or tripled the recipe and they completely forgot the flour. If you know the recipe, it has a LOT of butter, so without the flour, you can imagine the state of the oven flour when they tried to cook it! It was swimming. But the result was the best sheet what I can only call "pecan brittle" ever. I've been thinking about trying to recreate it (but without all the mess.) Wow, that would make quite a mess; if you only did a single batch minus flour and used a 9 x 13-inch pan to keep everything contained, I think you might have something. I'd be interested to know the results. Thanks for the kind words. Susan

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