Thinking about this as I have a cake baking that started with a box mix, but I doctored up a little, and plan to top with homemade frosting.
What do you consider "homemade" to mean? There are a couple of different ways to interpret that.
First, in your own home kitchen: when you make a sauce staring with canned tomatoes, is that homemade? Is it 75% homemade? Disregarding that canned tomatoes are frequently superior to supermarket fresh tomatoes, how homemade would you consider it?
Or my cake; I started with a box mix of standard chocolate cake, but grated some dark chocolate into the batter, added some grand marnier and orange zest, and I made the frosting...is that 50% homemade, or is that being too generous?
Second, out on the road today, I drove by a "farmers' market" that really is nothing more than a storefront. They don't grow anything, they buy it all from suppliers, same as Kroger or any other market.
They had a sign up advertising "homemade fudge," and the fudge is packaged like a homemade product, but they didn't make it, they bought it from someone else and are merely reselling it. Would you think "homemade" in that sense should imply that the maker and the seller are one and the same?
Just musing while I wait for my homemade...er, home-baked cake to cool.
What do you consider "homemade" to mean? There are a couple of different ways to interpret that.
First, in your own home kitchen: when you make a sauce staring with canned tomatoes, is that homemade? Is it 75% homemade? Disregarding that canned tomatoes are frequently superior to supermarket fresh tomatoes, how homemade would you consider it?
Or my cake; I started with a box mix of standard chocolate cake, but grated some dark chocolate into the batter, added some grand marnier and orange zest, and I made the frosting...is that 50% homemade, or is that being too generous?
Second, out on the road today, I drove by a "farmers' market" that really is nothing more than a storefront. They don't grow anything, they buy it all from suppliers, same as Kroger or any other market.
They had a sign up advertising "homemade fudge," and the fudge is packaged like a homemade product, but they didn't make it, they bought it from someone else and are merely reselling it. Would you think "homemade" in that sense should imply that the maker and the seller are one and the same?
Just musing while I wait for my homemade...er, home-baked cake to cool.