[stylist] The Jacuzzi Event by Old Blind Mike! For fun!

[Jackie Williams]

Debbie,
Your story really rang a bell with me. My son, who does not usually like my
cinnamon Bundt biscuits with the brown sugar and pecans, unexpectedly took a
piece out of the new panful. He raved about them and asked what hot spice I
had used. I tasted them and they were really hot and delicious. I asked him
to check at the grocery store for what I guessed must have been jalapeno
biscuits. There was no such product. It finally turned out that I had my
cans of cinnamon and cayenne pepper reversed on the shelf, and had used the
wrong one.
I never make them anymore without both spices along with the butter, brown
sugar and pecans. 
I love to experiment, but doubt I would have thought of this without the
blessings of blindness!
Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 

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Oh Mike! That is one of the funniest this-so I've read! Thanks 
for sharing! You made a tense situation so very funny and 
interesting.  I can just see me doing something like that! Lol.  
I did once put pepper in chocolate chip cookie dough.  OH my 
goodness, did I get in trouble for that one! Well, sort of.  I 
was in 7th grade.  We were in Home Ec class at the Oregon School 
for the Blind.  We were preparing cookies and other goodies for a 
dance that would be held in two days' time.  My boyfriend at the 
time, was David Hyde, (some of you may know him).  He was one of 
the most popular boys in school, and I was so happy because I 
knew that I wouldn't be a wallflower at this dance.  I was mixing 
the cookie dough, following a Braille recipe.  I reached into a 
cupboard and got out a measuring device that placed 1 teaspoonful 
exactly of whatever had been placed in it.  This time it was 
supposed to be salt.  I didn't sniff the container-I had no idea 
that some idiot would also use it for pepper.  So into the dough 
went the pepper.  Our home ec teacher, Mrs..  Jackson came over 
to view my work.  "Well," she snapped, "this dough is no good! 
Weren't you paying attention at all? You just put pepper into the 
cookie dough, so now you'll have to clean up this mess and start 
over." Out went the dough.  The bowls, spoons, and cups all had 
to be rewashed, and I had to start all over again.  (Personally 
now, I would have only washed the dough bowl and just measured 
with the cups again.  After all, the only thing that was wrong 
was the pepper.  But I believe Mrs.  Jackson made me rewash 
everything to re-enforce my disgrace.  No one, until this day, 
knew about the pepper in the cookie dough.  (Until now, of 
course).    Debby

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