Quick Tip #9 ~ Prep Ingredients for Unskilled Cooks

When baking or cooking with children or the elderly it is helpful to prepare as much as possible before hand.  It saves time, frustration on everyone's part and is less mess.  Depending on the project at hand and the experience you want to give quite a bit can be prepared ahead.  Here is an example from a recent experience with Elizabeth's elderly grandmother.

We wanted to let her enjoy baking her father's soft sugar cookies.  She can not follow a recipe any longer and it is very hard for her to even follow verbal