I try to always measure out all my ingredients before starting to make something, but at the holidays when I'm making a whole bunch of different things I usually just set the containers of flour, sugar, etc. on the kitchen table and measure as I go. At Thanksgiving I make both apple and pumpkin pie since my family likes to have both. This particular time everything baked up nicely and looked great so it was a big surprise when family members started asking me if I'd tried a new pumpkin pie recipe because this one tasted "different". I assured them that I had used the same recipe handed down from my grandmother to my mother to me that I always made. Then I took a bite and realized that I completely left out the sugar! I ended up putting extra sugar into the whipped cream and slathered the pie with super-sweet whipped cream so that we were able to eat it. From that day on I ALWAYS make sure to measure out all the ingredients and line them up in order of use on the table before I start mixing.

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