For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 23, 2015

’Twon’t be much of a bake sale if all the kindergartners’ mothers make the same kind of cookies.

“Squares”? Is that “Canadian” for Brownies?

I had never realized that “squares” were a Canadian thing. (I just Googled ‘squares recipe’ and the results were all Canadian sites.)You are all correct. Like cake, pie or cookies, ‘squares’ is the generic term for any dessert baked in a rectangular pan and cut into squares for serving: lemon squares, date squares, nanaimo bars, brownies, pecan pie squares, raspberry coconut squares and the bake sale favourite: Rice Krispies Squares…

Lemon, raspberry, coconut, pecan, apple, oatmeal, caramel…..anything you can bake and cut into squares.

Ever heard of cake mixes Lizzie? Or how about making nothing for that crack?

Oh for heaven’s sake. I heard desserts referred to as “squares” when I lived in the states, all it means is you cut it into a square.

Religious holiday celebrations are available at religious schools. Where they belong.

Shoot, man, I’d buy four of those myself. Sounds like a great diet-killer of a cookie.

The cookies from Walmart usually turn out okay.

I love those “no bake” oatmeal, peanut butter, chocolate patties (sort of a cookie type). Make those. : )

“They usually turn out”? Is this a Canadian expression?

Lynn’s Notes:

My mother in law made the best cookies ever. I could never make them as well, because I can’t seem to stick to a recipe. First of all, I hate to measure. It means extra time and extra utensils. I like instructions which say “a dash of this or a knob of that.” When it comes to dinner, I’m a fairly good cook, but when it comes to the finer things like cookies and cakes, I defer to those who follow directions. This reminds me: my grandmother, when asked how she measured molasses would say: “two golollups and a drip”. I loved that expression!

I’ve been watching the Food Channel a lot lately since I’m having digestive problems and am always looking for new ideas. The experts there continuously say that you can cook ‘savory’ food with a ‘dash’ of this and a ‘bit’ of that, but with baking, exact measurements are needed.

Go back under your bridge, little troll.

She’s learned early! lol

OK, she got off easy on the off the wall remark.I remember the good old days when someone could make an off the wall remark, and everyone would have a muffled laugh, and life would go on.Fast foreward to 2015:Now, if someone dares make an off the wall remark, some AH with a video or voice recorder – well to make a long story short, that one clip will define him for the rest of his life!!

They don’t do EASTER bonnet bake sales anymore for fear of offending some jerko muslim.-—————And instead we get a jerko bringing politics into this. Go elsewhere, please. Maybe back under your rock.Or are you just the alternate troll, here to annoy people for fun and profit?

tom_wright: I notice you didn’t complain about bonnets. Are they forced on females in your cult?

squares are any pastry that is cut into squares after baked.

rich240: "They usually turn out” is hardly unknown in Texas, as in “That’s how…”.

So you want fairy tales in schools. Says a lot about your “intelligence”.