Mine was the cake too. My beloved cake pan is double-walled, just the right
size for the Christmas cake and has a lid that fits perfectly. I just could
not find it. Anywhere. Even looked in the drawer under the oven where I only
store dust bunnies. One year I had put it in the freezer full of cups of
water frozen for a hurricane threat. Not this year. Where in the world?
Finally, I remembered. I had baked a banana nut bread for DSIL back in
November. The cake pan went to live with him. Probably likes him better.
SO ! for the cake pan substitute, I had to choose between the drip pan
from a 1961 Ford pickup truck and the kitty litter box. Guess which one I
chose? Polly

"MB" wrote in message
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Well, almost a disaster...but it was only a cake! but I was making it to
bring
to a Christmas dinner...It was a pound cake but with 1/2 lb butter...6
eggs...
sour cream, egg whites beaten separately-and I hated to lose all that
!!...
Actually Thanksgiving Day while I was putting
foil on the turkey to keep it from browning so much , I dropped some foil
on
the electric unit in
the oven. It really glowed bright in that one spot and has so since
then.
Of course, it waited until the cake had
been in 25 of the 75 minutes it would take to bake. I heard a
pop..thought
it might be grease....opened the oven
and saw that spot on the electric element really glowing...on
fire...!...and
then it quit. Big sigh!!!
My dd quickly thought of our convection oven......did a preheat while i
quickly closed the other oven door with the cake still in it.......and
finished the cake in the convection oven. It came out perfectly
!!!!...Mary.


"IMS" wrote in message
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Got up this morning at 7:30 to get the bird prepped and in the oven.
Now, I don't know about any of you but I am absolutely in a daze first
thing in the AM, a real walking zombie. Well to make a long story
short, in my attempt to get some coffee made and also get the bird in
the oven, I sustained a major burn on my right palm. Ouch!! Talk about
throwing a wrench into dinner preparations. And, to top it off, the
roasting pan I put the turkey in ended up being too shallow and about an
hour before dinner smoke filled the house as the drippings overflowed
onto the oven floor! Thank goodness this is a new stove and I suppose I
should be positive and look at it from the perspective of now being able
to test the self clean feature. And, you know, it's really hard to
carve a turkey left handed when you're right handed...I'm so glad I
remembered the electric knife.

Thank goodness for all the help from the DH and DS and my other dinner
guests who pitched in to help the cripple....dinner was actually a
success.

Anyway to get back on topic, I just finished loading up one of my
Christmas gifts, EQ5 onto my computer! What a nifty program!! Guess
I'll work up some projects for the remainder of the evening because I
certainly won't be able to sew for a few days.

Anyone else have a Christmas day disaster?
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