I used to believe that made from scratch meant that the baker would scratch a cutting board with their fingernail and little bits of white powder would appear. This was where the flour came from to make something from scratch. No wonder bread "made from scratch" were revered!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when you made food 'from scratch', that scratch was an ingredient like starch.— Aynsleigh
- I used to believe that if I scratched one side of my body I had to
scratch the other to be "even".— Greg - I used to believe that when I used up all the sheets in my desk scratch pad, I would be married.— Barb
- 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 french fries were made of bread.— tendersoul
- My mom used to tell me that bread crust made you whistle just so i would eat it.— emily