Scratch English muffin. Scratch strawberry and blackberry jam including scratch made pectin from backyard apples. Scratch made elderberry mead from backyard elder plants. 6 years old
Not scratch: the peanut butter.
I’d like to thank prednisone, ibuprofen and amoxicillin and past me for making this possible. Past me for making the mead, preserves and, from a few days ago, the dough.
The very first scratch meal I made was a PB&J sandwich. I paired it with a homemade porter.
I had, apparently incorrectly, assumed it came from scratching over a misspelling and rewriting it.
That’s a legitimate use of “scratch” and since OP was being too cool to use the whole phrase “from scratch,” it could be re-interpreted to mean “I decided to throw out the whole meal and just eat a spoonful of peanut butter. What a waste of all my hard work!”
Like if they’d just opened their mail and in it was a notice: WARNING: MAJOR ARSENIC CONTAMINATION IN YOUR AREA! Injesting anything grown in your soil may cause severe illness and harm to vital organs!
This reminds us to be careful with phrasing.
Appreciated the etymology of the phrase, thank you for the enlightenment! :)