While Dad and Mum were away, I had to do some of the cooking. I did a quiche, Pizza, and Lasagne. The Pizza dough recipe really does have honey in it..... Here it is:

1 cup warm water
2 tablespoons yeast (or less...)
2 tablespoons honey
0.25 cup olive oil
0.5 teaspoon salt
3.5 cups flour

All this goes into the breadmaker on the "dough" setting. It gives more of an edible base than the other recipe I tried that day.

The Chef

Piles of old, grimy books lay jumbled, half sorted like the thoughts of the hapless wannabe cook who was at that moment, sifting through the contents of a rainforest worth of culinary directions. The cool wind lifted some of the loose leaf editions even looser pages, till the floor was an anarchy of "Edmonds cookbook" pages. Thus being the case, he was left with no choice. www.google.co.nz........ the quick search found many recipes, 19,100,000 in fact. Plenty of choice....

"You're going to make Pizza dough with honey in it?" enquired The onlooker (Theresa by name). "That's what it has in the recipe...." replied the puzzled chef as he steadfastly followed the bizarre instructions found online in an attempt to make a light base that wouldn't taste like a wine biscuit.

The oven roared, blasting hot air to the other side of the cavernous kitchen. Flour, misplaced by the sudden rush of heat swirled up near the smoke blackened ceiling, obscuring the light from the one barred, but open window. Filthy pots, waiting for their monthly clean boiled on the open flame on the other side of the oven, their contents awaiting ingestion by the lord of this unfortunate castle......... Suddenly, the cook awoke from that semi-consciousness that he often relapsed into, and was grateful that this wasn't a medieval kitchen that he was working in......

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