The stove was needed every day for cooking, for baking bread (most of the people could not afford store-bought bread), and for heating wash water.

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But even as I grew confident around a stove, progressing from roasting a chicken to boning a duck, from baking muffins to culturing sourdough, I avoided making funnel cake.

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