December 2,
2009This Lebkuchen variation is another make-it-early recipe. The dough sits for two weeks before being baked. Additionally, the cookies will keep for weeks in an air-tight container and ship well.
Yes, all those one-use web sites are really simplistic, but they can be very clever in a very simple way. If you spend most of your time inside or in the car, do you really need to know more than whether to carry an umbrella? Here's one to answer the question "Is it Christmas?"
Not a professional baker or cook that is. Occasionally, someone will write with a question, with the assumption that I bake for a living and/or have a professional grade kitchen. This is not the case; this is all the work of a very serious, even obsessed, but still amateur baker.
By trade, I'm a geek, programming web sites that connect to databases. Many of the features of the site are due only to my desire to experiment with new technology. I'll talk your ear off about how storing the recipes in an XML file makes it possible to easily convert between metric and American measurements, and how XSLT and CSS make re-designing so easy, and — hello? Why are you leaving? Isn't this fascinating?
On the other hand, I do fantasize about ditching it all to just bake yummy things. The fantasy really takes hold after eating a slice of tasteless, generic bakery cake. But I know the hours on my feet would kill me, if not the stress of burning, under-baking, under-whipping, and over-measuring.
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Last updated November 30, 2009