I Am Ashamed
I was invited to a cookie exchange yesterday. After pondering all the different cookies I could make, I finally settled on one.
As I mixed the ingredients on Friday afternoon, I noticed how dirty and yucky my can of baking powder was. Out of curiosity, I turned over the can to see how old it was ...
In case you can't see it, the expiration date says "20 Aug 96." It expired before Taylor was even born! With the assumption that baking powder has a decent shelf-life, I am guessing that this can was bought before Joe and I were even married, in 1995.
Where has it been lurking all this time? I know not. We bought our first house in 1995. Bought our current house in 2000, and moved to Ohio for a year and a half in the interim. And I know that I've had other baking powder cans since then. I guess it's either moved around a lot or sat around a lot.
In case you were wondering, the cookies turned out.
Maybe a little too good.
(Remember my little local grocery store with the outdated goods? Well, they went out of business two weeks ago, unrelated to their outdated goods. I couldn't even make a quick dash to buy more.)
As I mixed the ingredients on Friday afternoon, I noticed how dirty and yucky my can of baking powder was. Out of curiosity, I turned over the can to see how old it was ...
In case you can't see it, the expiration date says "20 Aug 96." It expired before Taylor was even born! With the assumption that baking powder has a decent shelf-life, I am guessing that this can was bought before Joe and I were even married, in 1995.Where has it been lurking all this time? I know not. We bought our first house in 1995. Bought our current house in 2000, and moved to Ohio for a year and a half in the interim. And I know that I've had other baking powder cans since then. I guess it's either moved around a lot or sat around a lot.
In case you were wondering, the cookies turned out.
Maybe a little too good.Note to self: Buy baking powder. Immediately.
(Remember my little local grocery store with the outdated goods? Well, they went out of business two weeks ago, unrelated to their outdated goods. I couldn't even make a quick dash to buy more.)
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A couple months ago I was cleaning out the spice shelves, I found a jar of bay leaves and some cinnamon bark that had been in there since we got married... 1994!!
yuck. They promptly went in the trash.
I also forgot to mention to you the other day ~ I saw that our local Albertson's carries the Cherry Chip Cake Mix. They often run super sales on Betty Crocker where I can get cake mixes for less than $1. Let me know the next time you are having a craving and I'll stalk the sales for you! :)
i liked this baking powder story. it's amazing how you buy something and then find it in the pantry expired. i always think, "gawd, i just bought this. was it that long ago?"
hope you had a good christmas :)
I am a military wife so we move every couple/three years and sometimes I'll look at something and say "I've had that since we lived in _______!"