Traders brought mayonnaise to Mexico one year, and the natives loved it. The demand was so great that the company had a huge ship bring a large supply from Europe. Because the load of mayonnaise was so heavy, during a storm in the Caribbean the ship sank. This happened on May 5, and the Mexicans made the day a holiday of mourning. They called it Cinco de Mayo. Because that sounds like Sink o' de Mayo.
That made me laugh when Clara told it to me. I hope you don't mind that I kind of filled in the details, like the shipping company and traders and such.
I don't really know the real Cinco de Mayo story. We were going to go to a thing about it at the library, but we got there late, and we saw that it was only little kids, so we didn't stay.
Yesterday it was pretty rainy. Today it was rainy and stormy, and the power went out for a minute. I had been making muffins, and they were baking, and I was like "No! "because the oven had turned off. But the power came back on, and the muffins turned out okay. They have the wierdest ingredients. They're called Breakfast in a Muffin muffins, and there is wheat flake cereal, orange juice, powdered milk, bananas, and eggs in them. Really like breakfast. They sound so wierd, but they were good. I am going to give you the recipe.
Breakfast-in-a-Muffin
1 c. wheat flake cereal
1 c. orange juice
1 c. orange juice
1/2 c. nonfat dry milk
1/4 c. vegetable oil
1/4 c. vegetable oil
1 egg
2 sm. bananas, mashed
1 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. whole wheat flour
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. raisins (optional)
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease muffin pan. Mix cereal, orange juice, and dry milk in a large bowl; let stand about 2 minutes or until soft. Mix in oil, egg, and bananas. Stir in remaining ingredients. Pour into muffin pan. Bake 20 minutes, or until top springs back when touched lightly. Makes 12 muffins.
The recipe is from Mom's 'The Great Southwest Cookbook' that I love. We have so many recipes we use in there.
Both Melissa and I have been working on research papers. Hers is a whole author project, so she also has to do a book review. The author she chose to do her paper on is Nathaniel Hawthorne.
I am doing mine on the Black Death. It was kind of a bad topic to pick, because some of the info I have been looking at is nasty.
1 comment:
as i said before..."why didn't you think of that when picking your topic? that's what first came to mind when you said you were doing it on the black death." ;)
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