I made brownies
Usually, this isn't worthy of a post, because it's a frequent occurrence. However, today's brownies have a couple of stories behind them.
Perry drinks two glasses of chocolate milk a day, which he mixes from Hershey's syrup. When we get to the end of a bottle, he turns it upside down to get a few more glasses out of it without having to wait 15 minutes for each glass. Upside down, the bottle is unstable and requires propping up. We once had a perfectly sized gravy boat for this purpose, but it broke. We've been making do with badly-fitting vessels of one sort or another.
Jocelyn has been doing ceramics for many years; her current school has a real kiln and wheels and everything, so she's been making a lot of things. I want to commission her to make a replacement stand for the upside-down chocolate syrup bottle. To this end, I wanted an empty bottle so she could have it as a model. But we had only recently opened a new bottle when I had this idea, and the other bottle had ended up in the recycling.
Perry doesn't use a huge amount of chocolate syrup in each glass. Thus, it actually takes a long time to finish a bottle.
I got impatient. I knew you could make brownies with Hershey's syrup instead of cocoa powder or baking chocolate. So I looked on the web for the recipe, and made them. They're yummy.
And to bring the stories full circle, when I was 10, and a latchkey kid, a friend (also latchkey) and I noticed that there was a recipe for brownies on the Hershey's syrup can (it was a can back then, not a bottle). So I called up my mother and asked if we could make them. She interrogated me about the recipe and the process and consented. They were yummy too, and I've been baking ever since!
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Perry drinks two glasses of chocolate milk a day, which he mixes from Hershey's syrup. When we get to the end of a bottle, he turns it upside down to get a few more glasses out of it without having to wait 15 minutes for each glass. Upside down, the bottle is unstable and requires propping up. We once had a perfectly sized gravy boat for this purpose, but it broke. We've been making do with badly-fitting vessels of one sort or another.
Jocelyn has been doing ceramics for many years; her current school has a real kiln and wheels and everything, so she's been making a lot of things. I want to commission her to make a replacement stand for the upside-down chocolate syrup bottle. To this end, I wanted an empty bottle so she could have it as a model. But we had only recently opened a new bottle when I had this idea, and the other bottle had ended up in the recycling.
Perry doesn't use a huge amount of chocolate syrup in each glass. Thus, it actually takes a long time to finish a bottle.
I got impatient. I knew you could make brownies with Hershey's syrup instead of cocoa powder or baking chocolate. So I looked on the web for the recipe, and made them. They're yummy.
And to bring the stories full circle, when I was 10, and a latchkey kid, a friend (also latchkey) and I noticed that there was a recipe for brownies on the Hershey's syrup can (it was a can back then, not a bottle). So I called up my mother and asked if we could make them. She interrogated me about the recipe and the process and consented. They were yummy too, and I've been baking ever since!
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