Cooking Up Warm Memories
Most of my recipes require preheating the oven to a certain temperature before baking. As I start to mix the dough, I press two buttons in the top panel of my stove. The fire ignites. Within five minutes the appliance beeps to let me know it has reached the set temperature.
A few more steps were involved back when our mother fired up her cookstove more than 60 years ago. There were no switches, but…