When my daughter was 10 or 11 she wanted to make a cake all by herself. I gave her the recipe for wacky cake which contains no eggs. When she had finished mixing the batter I told her she should taste it to make sure that it was okay. She told me it tasted really funny and not very good. We went over the recipe together and she had apparently confused the measurement for salt with the measurement for sugar. I told her to dump it and start all over again and I'd be in the other room if she needed help. The second time around her cake came out beautifully, no help from me, and she was very proud. A great lesson re: reading recipes in advance and very carefully. As an adult she's turned out to be a great baker.

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