In “Cheaper by the Dozen,” the hero experiments with his twelve children to develop his love of motion study. He called bathroom stops “unavoidable delays” and while there is the sense that not all of his children appreciated his methods, my mother also avoided repeat movements.
One of the most time-consuming tasks in my mother’s kitchen was sifting flour. Following Betty Crocker’s instructions, she always sifted before measuring for accuracy and to keep the flour airy. So sifting, adding dry ingredients, and cutting in shortening in one large batch made it easy to put together pancakes, waffles, muffins, cornbread and simple cakes in a short time. The baking mix recipe and chart, pictured above, was the result.
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