Just wondering ...

Addiscomber

why is it called "cooking from scratch"?

Biddyrolo

Don't know, are you the same Addiscomber from the RC site? If you don't mind my asking (I have a different user name on there)

Addiscomber

Yep, that's me. if I tried to use more than one name I would get hopelessly confused.

mookybargirl

I had to google it, never thought about it before now....

Apparantly, it comes from a scratch being made as the starting point of a race (in the Oxford Eng. Dictionary scratch - sporting, a line or mark drawn as an indication of a boundary or starting point)

So, starting from scratch and cooking from scratch being from the starting point, point of origin.

Get me, clever clogs :rotfl:

Strepsy

From the scratch drawn in the ground serving as the starting line of a foot race. A runner “starting from scratch” received no handicap, but started at the beginning of the course.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/from_scratch

dolly_day_dream

I think it is because you are starting from the begining with nothing done for you. If you want a more detailed meaning - sorry dunno

Biddyrolo

Addiscomber wrote:

Yep, that's me. if I tried to use more than one name I would get hopelessly confused.

Well I tried to register under my usual name (Angelfish) but I couldn't so ended up using youngests nickname,

Addiscomber

Thanks.
Don't see what cooking has got to do with starting a race, although it does seem like a never ending marathon sometimes, when it takes 3 hours or so to cook a meal and it disappears in about 10 minutes.

Addiscomber

Biddyrolo wrote:

Well I tried to register under my usual name (Angelfish) but I couldn't,

Does this mean that you have an impersonator? How sinister.

Biddyrolo

I think it could be CKR or Deerstalker

catznine

I always thought it was because you had to scratch around for the ingredients! :rotfl: