Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:21:11 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Mike Walsh and cooking
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> myeh at wap.org 10/18/04 4:02:09 PM >>>
>   Sally;
>     A  friend who can bake, and bakes very well has
>already offered to make me a cake.
>   This is about forcing Mike to keep to his bargain.
>    The offer was that I would bake him a cake if he would
>bake me a cake.
>    Mike accepted.   I baked an orange sponge cake with
>orange frosting, sacrificing some good orange juice in the
>process.
>    Mike needs to bake me a cake -- not buy, not trade,
>not get someone else to make.
>     It would be interesting to see what kind of cake Mike
>decides to make and how well he does it.  I used to think
>everyone could bake a cake, not neccesarily decorate a
>cake, but bake it.
>   Then I heard horror stories out of Baltimore Science
>Fiction about various things people managed to pull out of
>their ovens.

When, what appear to be be, fresh baked goods appear at a BSFS
gathering, only after it has been ascertained that it did not come from
Baker X, only then do the wise folks consume.

mjw