Excerpt from The Other Side God's Door: Messages From Lord Kitchener, Mary Baker Eddy, and Others I know now how to make a most successful cake, but the first time I tried it was a miserable failure. I wanted to throw the whole cook book away. I said it was a fake, unreliable, a veritable snare and a delusion.' I had had the best of materials, a keen enthusiasm, and perfect oven conditions. However, what I did find out, upon speaking about it later to one who knew, ' was that I had not gone about it in the right way. I had, to be sure. Sifted my flour most thoroughly, and I had put it, all flaky and white, into my mixing bowl, and then I had beaten the eggs, and stirred first the yolks and then the whites into the flour until it became a clot of glue-like bubbles; then I had added the milk, hoping to unclot the glue, then the sugar, and after mashing the butter 3. Bit, had stirred that, as much as it would go, into the whole, dusting on top of all the baking powder, and stirring in the vanilla. My heart went down as I closed the oven door on the lumpy strange-looking pan of batter, but it rose a moment after as I thought perhaps the oven will even it all up and it will come out to perfection! When it did come out, alas, although it had a golden crust and a fine perfume of vanilla, it found an early grave among the glowing coals that had baked it, and only the opportune arrival of the friend who knew saved the recipe book from cremation also! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.