Explanatory note - dulce de leche: Toffee with the consistency of caramel, the lazy recipe for which is to boil an unopened tin of condensed milk in water for two hours.
Niece newly arrived from Argentina (20): We were watching Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game…
(Reason given for ignoring the muffled sound of an explosion coming from the kitchen, where earlier she had been showing off to her young cousins how easy it was to make dulce de leche. All you had to do was boil the unopened tin of condensed milk for a couple of hours, however not forgetting to add water to the pan every so often. The Generation Game had wiped from her brain this last portion of the recipe.)
Niece… (20), nervously to cousins: So…er... what time is your mother expected home?
(Said immediately upon noticing that there was condensed milk splattered on every square inch of surface in the kitchen, from waist level up to and including the ceiling, and that the original saucepan was now oval.)
PS: Upon her return, the aunt in question was half way between speechless and amused rather than angry, to her niece’s everlasting gratitude.
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