Publisher's Pen: No more eating dough!

When I was growing up, one of the carrots that my mother would use to get us to help when she was baking was the opportunity to lick the beaters or spatulas. Or sometimes when she was baking cookies my mom would roll some dough into a small ball and offer it to us to taste the cookies before they were baked. Chocolate cake batter was always my favorite, although a lemon cake was equally good. My mother would make chocolate chip oatmeal cookies or raisin oatmeal cookies and if she was not looking we might try to steal a sample from the bowl hooking a finger into the stiff dough and pulling out a sample that was quickly transferred to our mouths. Read more...