Mami is a cook, not a baker, so I learned to how bake solo. I learned from pans of ruined brownies (do not replace eggs with water), rock sugar instead of caramel (I stirred and stirred and stirred) and melted wax on my cookies and baking sheets (wax paper and parchment paper are two different animals).
I've had this recipe for ages and always mentally thank Mrs. Stark for sharing it with me. She even generously gave me her own loaf pans, which was such a relief because coming from a non-baking Asian household, no such pans existed in our kitchen. This Lemon Loaf was one of my first successful baking projects. At 12, it felt pretty good that Papi was a huge fan, and he still is.
