Re: Biscuits in the year of our lord 20250203!

On 2025-02-06 12:18 p.m., dsi1 wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 16:15:31 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

 

It must be an invention. People buy it. I don't. I guess the big trick
was to get people to publish recipes that called for it. Instead of
adding a little baking powder to flour a lot of people will go out and
pay more for the self rising flour.

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I invented some cinnamon sugar today by mixing up some sugar with
cinnamon. The most innovative part of this was doing it in a baggie.
Perhaps a little salt will be phase II of this product. I can tell, this
is going to be big!

  I have been making cinnamon sugar since I was a kid. I was really surprised to see it for sale in the spice section of a grocery store and for a hefty price.
 Many years ago I was working in Fort Erie and we often had coffee at a little diner.  At the time it was 45 cents for an order of toast and there was a bowl of individual servings of jams, jellies and honey. You could use as many as you wanted.  Cinnamon toast was 40 cents. I argued with the owner about it. I thought it was ridiculous to charge so much for cinnamon toast when the little bit of cinnamon sugar involved would be so much cheaper than the jams.  He stuck to his guns.... so I add extra jam to help him prove his point.