The common slice

I love making slices for our morning tea. I had decided, after searching online for slices on all the common recipe websites, not finding any, AND never seeing one at a potluck, that Americans do not make slices.  Having come to this conclusion, it followed that I would be limited to my Edmond’s cookbook (a common NZ cookbook) for slice recipes.   Because I have found NZ flour to be different from US flour, requiring different quantities, I basically have to make an educated guess on how much flour to add to the slice and hope it turns out okay.  Sometimes it does.  Just as often it does not.

This week, my brain had a little click (a Vygotsky-an ‘ah ha’ moment) and I realised that when people say “oh, it’s like a bar”, it doesn’t follow that the only bar they know/make is a muesli bar.  That’s just the only bar I know!  American's call it a granola bar.  Somehow, I suddenly knew that if I looked up raspberry bar, a slice recipe would be suggested and low and behold it was!  This may seem like it’s not really worth sharing but it is YEARS of unconscious research for me.  My brain is slower at picking this stuff up than a child’s.