Scraping the Bowl!

 Visiting cousins in Troy, New York, Marash Girl sat with her auntie and her cousin while her auntie prepared a special cake for the family.  Removing the cake batter from the mixing bowl, and placing the batter into the oiled cake pan, her auntie continued to scrape the bowl until every drop of cake batter had been removed from the mixing bowl and was in the cake pan.  Auntie's daughter began to rant:  "How cheap can you be?  You have to scrape every bit of batter out of the bowl?"  Auntie did not answer her daughter.  Auntie knew better.  Auntie's daughter had never been hungry, had not survived a genocide, and had no appreciation for her mother, nor for the ageless advice:  "Waste not, want not."  Auntie was wise enough not to say a word.  She simply placed the cake pan filled with batter into the preheated oven, and began to clean up the kitchen, 45 minutes later serving the cake, just out of the oven, to her guests.

Marash Girl thinks of that incident every time she prepares batter for a cake, muffins, pancakes, or scones.  Hopefully, by now, that Troy cousin has learned to respect her elders, and to "Waste Not!"