How to bake a cake:

• Preheat oven; get out utensils and ingredients.
• Remove blocks and toy autos from table.
• Grease pan, crack nuts.
• Measure two cups of flour, remove baby's hands from flour, wash flour off baby, re-measure flour.
• Put flour, baking powder, and salt in sifter.
• Get dustpan and brush up pieces of bowl baby knocked on the floor. Get another bowl
• Answer doorbell
• Return to kitchen, remove baby's hands from bowl. Wash baby.
• Answer phone.
• Return.
• Remove one-fourth inch salt from greased pan. Look for baby.
• Grease another pan.
• Answer telephone.
• Return to kitchen and find baby. Remove his hands from bowl.
• Take up greased pan and find layer of nutshells in it. Head for baby, who flees, knocking bowl off table.
• Wash kitchen floor, table, walls, dishes.
• Call baker. Lie down.