Since January, I have purchased two containers of baking powder.

I have used 1.5 containers, yet have none when I open up the cupboard. When I do not want baking powder it is easily found, placed in/on a shelf where it disappears again.

No one touches the can. It just appears and disappears at will. I finally figured out what my malfunction is.

It's the label.

Not me!

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/BakingPowder.htm

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For years, I would come home and see my mom cook/mix up a batch of tortillas. She would carefully lay out the ingredients.

Morton's Salt, Calumet Baking Powder, La Pina flour, Rex lard and forearms!

When I start to cook, I try to channel the scenes I have in my head as to how and what my mom used to cook.

LOLOLOLOLOL.

Here's an example- Red chile and beef or Chile Colorado.

I called my mom and asked her about her recipe-she told me in 'uncertain' terms- a palm full of chile, half a palm of cumin and a pinch of garlic salt.


What I do not think about is the size of the palm of a 4'11" woman and the size of the palm of a 6'2" "burro". (Burro is a slang term, in espanol, for a moron!)

I do not think when I cook.

Cooking is instinct-unless you see/try a new recipe!

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I have been looking for an Amerind or Woman on my shelves.
It's either the Clabber Girl or the Calumet Indian!

Cannot find either of them because I have ROYAL BAKING POWDER on the shelf.

It's such an automatic reaction. Look for the label that you grew up with and grab that!

There are times that I have to stop and THINK about what I want.

I grew up with this product......why isn't it there!

Does this happen to you with the new labeling or the fact that many 'labels' you grew up with are disappearing?