Something unusual that happened today (Eng. Assignment)

Every Tuesday, our class, 2A, have our home economics class as the last period of school. In home economics, we basically do cooking and sewing. Today, we were instructed to cook a recipe which I myself have never heard of before, Peanut Butter Cookies! These are basically cookies that are made with brown sugar, which is healthier, and, of course, peanut butter.

The recipe instructed us, my partner Reuben Choo and I, to mix the butter, fine sugar and brown sugar together to create a thick mixture. After this was done, the egg was stirred in followed by the peanut butter...then came the flour!

When one normally does baking, the mixture is smooth and silky until the flour is added, the flour is supposed to just make it thicker. However, as he slowly poured the sieved flour into the cookie mixture and mixed with the cake mixer, the most unusual thing happened! As I mixed the mixture, its started to get thicker, but as more flour was mixed in, it started to turn grainy! The large pieces broke into small pieces the size of those erasers on the caps of pencils! These pieces steadily grew smaller until the mixing container looked like it had a large amount of yellowish-brown coloured eraser dust pieces! (Unfortunately, I do not have a picture of this as it was lesson time and my hand-phone could not be used)

We showed it to our Home Economics teacher, Miss Hashima, who doubled over with laughter at our product, causing me and Reuben to be extremely embarassed! Miss Hashima then helped to solve our problem, she got some milk and poured it in to the mixture, making it thick enough to form "proper" dough.

After we followed the instructions from Miss Hashima on how to stir in the milk and how to mix it in a way that would not make it turn into eraser dust pieces. We soon finished the cookie dough and placed them on the baking tray. We then put the tray in the oven and left it to bake. After 15 minutes, the cookies came out and they looked excellent to me. Miss HAshima then graded the cookies and we got a whopping four and a half out of five! Not a bad result at all!