i was told that if we made a noise whilst a cake was baking in theoven it wouldn't rise.
it was only when i tried to keep the rest of the cookery class quite during a cake baking lesson that i realised it was my mothers way of keeping myself and my siblings quiet for a while.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe making a cake from scratch meant using a box mix rather than buying a cake from the store.— EZ
- I used to believe that all dessert was birthday cake.— David
- when i was 4 i thought an earthquake was an earth cake!— chardog
- I used to belive that however many pieces of cake you had determined how old you were turning!Anon
- I thought that Devil's food cake was invented by Satanists!— Dietrich Corby
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon