Culinary Adventure

Beautiful Elle

In the sixties 37% of women worked outside the home and this was a decade earlier. As the only child of a full time working mother, Elle had not developed a natural bent toward domestic refinement. Although her mother Mildred was a professional seamstress Elle insists she cannot sew on a button. Despite her somewhat awkward approach Elle gave her all to making a good home life and being a good wife to her new husband George. The newlyweds rented an apartment next to another couple where the wife was highly skilled at cooking, baking and managing her household.

The kind neighbor lady became an inspiration to Elle as she made every effort to prepare meals and become a domestic success. It was often the case that her culinary efforts brought frustration and feelings of inadequacy. One particularly energetic day Elle decided to bake a special cake to surprise her husband. His mother was a cook to top most cooks so she knew he would be pleased with a delicious homemade cake.

The cake filled the apartment with the warm, enticing smell of chocolate. Her started enjoying herself and felt quite proud of her accomplishment. When the cake had done it’s time in the oven, Elle opened the oven door to find the cake lopsided and half sunken. As soon as the cake cooled Elle plunged her two fists right into it then attacked the cake with her hands until it was a pile of crumbs, sobbing all the while. Thus ended the baking adventures of Elle.