One of the blogs I follow is Sentence First, subtitled An Irishman's blog about the English language. Mostly. The most recent post is a recipe for "Banana bread-cake". I'm not a keen cook, but the recipe looks wonderful. If anyone cares to try it, do let us know how it turns out.
What caught my eye, however was this paragraph:
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The ingredient quantities are double the original quantities because I usually make two bread-cakes at a time: one for me and whoever is around, and one for some other person or household. Although this adds a few minutes to the baking time, on balance it wastes significantly less energy and allows more satisfaction to be distributed.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
