I once started a batch of noodles and usually double the recipe to use two cups of flour, etc. For some reason I added too much of something else, and ended up with six times the amount I had planned and noodles were drying all over the house--on the spare bed, a living room table, the dining room table, the kitchen counter, my computer desk. They were fine, just too many all at once. And once I left the sugar out of a batch of sugar cookies. A friend told me she made boiled frosting for a cake, and her husband just picked up the frosting off the cake and dropped it in the sink and it didn't even crack.

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