Flashes of Panic

No wonder people don’t bake more often. Here I find these instructions in my banana bread recipe:

Turn into greased loaf pan.

I think that’s a bit more metamorphosis than I had in mind, thank you.

And that’s not even in one of those fancy-dan, newfangled tofu-and-veggies Californized cook-books. That’s in Marge Standish’s Cooking Down East, which includes such pointed epigraphs as:

Parsley, parsley everywhere
Heavens, I like my victuals bare.