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Sally Mae LOVES to help me in the kitchen!
Look what she helped with today!
Every time she asks if we can get out the small pans so she can make loaves I have to remind myself that it doesn’t matter if I’m in a hurry. God gave me a daughter and it’s my happy duty to teach her all I know.
OK, not all. I don’t want to teach her to be impatient with her children.
So, every time she asks me to get out the small bread pans, I get them out and show her how to form loaves.
She is so eager to learn everything to do with preparing food and I want to nurture that.
It won’t be too many years before she is doing all the baking herself.
Do you have daughters that help you in the kitchen? I’d love to hear what they can make.
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“don’t want to teach her to be impatient with her children” I needed to hear that today!
THose look delicious!!!
Uh oh. That sounds like one bad loaf of bread! I hope yours come out better than that!
while i am the daugher and have not had any of my own i loved learning to cook with my mom. over the years i have taken over the holiday cookie baking and i also make the holiday pecan pies with homemade crusts. the one thing i didn’t learn from my mom but was inspired to try after reading your blog was making my own bread. this has been a teach your self exercise since the last loaf of bread my mom made was so hard my dad’s hand saw didn’t even make a dent in the crust. it was eventually used by my brother, cousins, and uncles as a makeshift football after dinner.
Hi Geri,
Yup, I’ve taught my Cowboys to cook too. I just don’t feel like they need to have ALL the kitchen skills. They’ll never starve though.
Thanks for your kind words!
No, I have sons. I did teach my sons to cook and bake, because I though it was important for them to learn not just for themselves but for their families. I now have three grand-daughters and teach them also.
You have a beautiful daughter, her eyes are filled with love.
THANKS!!! for sharing.
Geri
Thanks, Mary! That’s encouraging!
Hi, Gail! thanks for your kind words!
Your daughter has such beautiful eyes. I’m so glad you are teaching her to bake. My girls now have families of their own, but we baked together as well. They are wonderful cooks, so all those years of patience has paid off with some wonderful meals.
I just love kids in the litchen! Bless you for baking with her…she’ll always remember her sweet momma helping her make stuff
Blessings!
Gail
you will be blessed for taking time to spend with your daughter and to teach her lessons such as these. One day she will hopefully remember what her mother did for her when it is her time to bake with her daughter
I love those little loaves and that proud smile. Good job mom and daughter.
Baking with your daughter is rewarding! Love her picture!
Congratulations to Sally Mae… she’ll be a fine baker one day!!! Send her over to my blog for a visit sometime. She might find my baking tutorials informative (or at least entertaining).
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Looks lovely! I love those little loaf pans for gifts for Christmas . . .
No girls yet, but my two year old son loves to help me cook. His favorite is anything in muffin form, which he calls cupcakes. Doesn’t matter if they are the healthiest, whole wheat, honey-sweetened sweet potato muffins, it’s still a cupcake. And that is fine by me!
Best,
Sarah
Oooh, nicely said, Nancy!
What a lovely smile of accomplishment on Sally’s face! My daughter (24) started as the “biscuit maker” around Sally’s age, and it wasn’t too long before her dad and 3 brothers preferred her biscuits over mine! Today, she can prepare whatever she wants, and they want whatever she prepares! It takes a little more time on the front end to do what you are doing, but the payoff is enormous later…in blessings for your family table, and also in blessings for her own table someday. “Train up a child” doesn’t only refer to godliness. We train in every area of life that involves service to others.
OOOOH!!! We should totally make some letter cookies! Thanks, Ritsumei!
Your T.Lynn sounds like my Sally Mae. (shhh! Your Beenie sounds like me. )
No daughters, but I have an outstanding appointment with my son to do some cooking. We’ll probably do letter cookies so I can sneak in some blending practice. I might even do another batch next week so we can use the number cookie cutters! Monkey LOVES to cook & has been known to pitch a pretty good fit if I don’t let him help.
She did a wonderful job! Look at that adorable expression she has.
Mine are older, even my baby is a little older than Sally Mae, so some of them do quite a bit in the kitchen.
Kay (19) likes to cook regular food – she is a seat of the pants type cook. She likes to get in there and just throw something together with whatever she thinks might taste good. Most of it is pretty good, and some of it is great (just a couple of duds). She does quiet a lot of the routine supper cooking.
Ri (17) likes baking best. She keeps us well supplied with cookies, and really enjoys making pies as well. She does fine with the regular everyday cooking, but prefers following a recipe, although she will alter one to suit her/our taste, or our pantry contents.
Bree (12) likes to do it all, and is coming along nicely with everything she’s trying.
Beenie (10) just likes to help – not the most “stick with a job ’til it’s done” type person, but we’re working on that. If she had it her way, she’d break all the eggs, stir things together, and run off with the beaters while you finish up.
T.Lynn (8) loves to help in whatever way I’ll let her – I just need to remember to call her in to help more often.
What a lovely activity to share with your daughter. My three daughters — now in their 20s — each had a night they were assigned to cook dinner. They could choose any recipe and I’d be there to help out. They’re now fantastic cooks … sometimes even better at it than *I* am!