Amity Bradford
How to Exploit Sugar Addicts I am convinced. Sugar is my families biggest weakness. After a few months at home due to COVID, I have relied, maybe a bit too heavily on my access to a working kitchen and reliable oven, sorry Ella Boyd. This is a bit embarrassing to admit, but upon reflection have found myself making all sorts of snacks for my own gain, literally. The first one being, to be a generous member of the family (obviously). The secon (being a bit more evil), to make the snacks as bribes to get out of housework. Essentially, I have trained my family to do something for me around the house using freshly baked biscuits. I make these biscuits every Monday night around 9 pm. It’s just the perfect time after dinner where you’re starting to get hungry again and late enough that you feel like indulging in a sugary snack.
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I have done this for at least two months straight without fail, and my family has come to know Monday night as “Biscuit Night”. I’ve experimented with the type of biscuits to vary each week to keep it interesting and have made choc mint, ginger, sugar biscuits, to name a few. Since I have started making these biscuits, I have not taken the rubbish out once, scrubbed a toilet or folded copious amounts of clothes. I have never verbally outlined the terms of this arrangement or intended to do so to blow my cover. That is the beauty of sugar addiction, I suppose. I’ve singlehandedly trained my family, much like Pavlov’s dog, to do household jobs for me in exchange for biscuits. So, here’s a recipe to get you started on training your own family.
