What To Cook?

 
 
 Betty and Bob have been back from their honeymoon for
 two weeks when Bob came home from work saying he'd invited
 four friends from the office home for dinner on Friday.

 Betty is a bit apprehensive as she asks if she must cook a
 meal for them all.  Bob explains that there will actually
 be eight coming, as each has a spouse or date. Since this is
 her first party, he consoles her by saying that all she has
 to do is get some Chinese food in and perhaps she can bake
 a cake.

 This sounds like a good idea, and they sit down and decide
 what Chinese food to get.  Friday morning wife calls the
 office in tears. She explains that the only cake recipe
 she has will only feed six.

 Hubby says,  "why don't you just double the recipe?"

 She decides that is a good idea.

 At four, hubby gets another phone call -- this time quite
 frantic. "I just can't do it," wifely weeps.  "It's
 impossible."

 "Now, now, what's the matter?"

 "Well, their recipe calls for two eggs..."

 "So, you use FOUR eggs.  Don't you have them?

 "Yes -- then it needs 4 cups of flour."

 "Well," Bob  says rather testily,
 "you will have to use 8 cups of flour -- what is the
 problem?"

 "It isn't the ingredients," Betty cries, "it says that
 the cake must be baked at 350 degrees and I have checked
 the oven and I can't turn the heat up to 700 degrees!"