So Monday Haylee Jae asked if we could make cupcakes. I said sure. I opened the mix, and she dumped it in the bowl. I measured out the water and oil in the cup and she poured it into the powdered mix. Alas, I went to the fridge to get the eggs. Opps. Should have checked before I started the cake. No eggs. Uh oh. What does a Grama do in the middle of a perfectly wonderful cooking lesson when there are no eggs to add to the mixture? I remembered reading somewhere that we could substitute mayonaise for eggs. One cup mayo equals 3 eggs. Haylee wasn't convinced, especially when I put that blob of white stuff in her chocolate mix. But she wanted the cupcakes and I hated to waste all those ingredients. So we tried it. The batter still tasted good, so we spooned the mixture into the paper liners and put them in the oven. Twenty minutes later the cupcakes looked exactly like any cupcake I'd ever made. Until...
...I tried to take one out of the tin. Even with their protective liners, the cakes crumbled and fell apart. I learned a great cooking lesson. Mayo ain't got nothing on eggs. I can't even begin to apply icing to these fake cakes. Now...they still taste good. But they simply don't hold up--or together.
This brought to mind the folks in life who try to substitute personal viewpoint for biblical principles. Intelligence for wisdom. Good works for faith. Temporal pleasure for eternal joy. They may appear to work well for a season. They may taste good. They may satisfy the sensual appetite. But all these things combined do not have the body necessary to hold life together. In the final analysis, if there's something to be said about subtitutions, it's that nothing works like the Real Thing. selahV
