Something Worth Remembering

Amalia

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stop thinking so much

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"Of course there are!" she can't help it - she laughs good-naturedly, arching an eyebrow playfully at Peter and his truly impressive naivete. "You need wet ingredients - and binding agents - to keep the dry ingredients together and give them shape. Otherwise you'd just have... powder."

To demonstrate she begins to add ingredients, explaining each one as she goes. He's so new to it all, so woefully uneducated; for a moment Amalia slips into teacher mode and forgets that this is Peter, her best friend's one true love. "The foundation of baked goods - it's flour. But honestly, flour tastes terrible uncooked. Here, have a taste." She pushes the measuring cup toward him then demonstrates, licking her finger and putting it in the now empty cup to swipe up some of the remnants. Licking if off, she wrinkles her nose.

"The other big dry ingredient is a leavening agent - like baking soda. It's what makes the cake rise up and get fluffy when it's cooked, but it also tastes horrendous so you have to mix it in really well."

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you're breaking your own heart

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