A person has to protect her
bakeware. I can’t remember how many 9”x9” pans I ruined by cutting cornbread
with a sharp knife before I caught on and started using a table knife instead.
Even the table knife tended to mar the inside surface of the pan.
Then one day I had a moment
of lateral thinking and saw my bench scraper – a tool intended for use in
kneading bread dough on a hard surface – in a new way.
Because I knead bread using
a pastry cloth, I had used my bench scraper only for dividing bread dough,
usually into two parts to make two loaves of bread. I used it as a cutter. Why
not, I realized, use it to cut other things, such as a pan of brownies, a
9”x13” cake, or the aforementioned cornbread?
Instead of dragging a knife
through the baked goods, I repeatedly use the bench scraper to cut straight
down along the intended rows. I cut this cornbread into nine pieces.
Aren’t multiple-use tools
great?
Oh, and when someone offers to cut the bar cookies for you, hand them the bench scraper. Never allow another person to do the cutting without your supervision! (Yes, I am a nut about baking.)
Copyright
2014 by Shirley Domer
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