22nd August, 1895 — The Gallivan kitchen

This had probably been a bad idea. Their cook had certainly had her reservations, setting them up with the recipe and all the ingredients ready from her pantry, and giving her bowls and gleaming baking tins a last longing look, as if she might not see them again when she returned tomorrow. It was the cook’s half-day today; it was Veronica’s birthday tomorrow, so this was their one chance. Only this had been Cee’s idea originally, and Theo had supposed to be the one distracting Veronica up at the shop – but then Cecily had had an invitation and had been the one to get out of this, whisking their stepmother along as her chaperone.

Which had left Theo holding a whisk and peering at the recipe a little warily, as he reconsidered the wisdom of trusting Selene and Nat to handle things like sugar and flour and, oh Christ, eggs.

“Alright, why doesn’t one of you take the dry ingredients bowl, and one of you can do the wet,” Theo proposed – and then all that would be left was to combine them, and pour the batter out and put it in the oven... so baking couldn’t be any harder than following a potions recipe, could it?

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Selene Gallivan & Nathaniel Gallivan II/Tycho Dodonus
FYI: Veronica Gallivan

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Theo might as well have started speaking in tongues for the amount Nat understood of what he was sayying. Still he took a wild guess and grabbed the dry ingredients bowl. Flour was very dry so that had to be a dry ingredient, right?

He took the bag of flour in hand and did his best to pour some out despite the flour bag being a little much for him - still, it kind of worked as the needed amount of flour was in the bowl surprisingly - and perhaps not so surprisingly, the flour now also dusted himself, Theo and Selene in white flour. "What's next?" He asked, as he set the flour to the side.

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Leni eyed the ingredients before her with a bit of apprehension. While the initial idea was a fun one, making their mother a cake for her birthday, seeing the various baking components and instruments strewn about the kitchen counter made her feel a little out of her depth. She had never made a cake - let alone baked - in her life!

But surely, it couldn't be that hard? She's seen Cook bake before, and she always made it seem so easy. Measure out the flour and sugar, crack the eggs, mix it altogether, transfer the mix to a tin for baking, and put it in the oven. In theory, it should be simple and straightforward.

Feeling a little more confident with this thought, Leni rolled up the sleeves of her blouse to her elbows, and reached for the eggs, milk, and butter (butter was considered wet, right?). Nat got started on the dry ingredients, measuring out a cup of flour that sent a light dusting of white into the air as it plopped unceremoniously into the bowl. "Sugar?" Leni suggested next, wiping the flour from her eyes.

  

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