{"id":3922,"date":"2018-11-27T22:53:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T04:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2018-11-28T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T17:22:58","slug":"not-the-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/27\/not-the-greatest\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the greatest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The jam stars<\/a> – as Susan calls them – or Spitzbuben<\/em>, as Max & Patrick say, are made and in the freezer, as are the fruit & nut balls, the Molly Wizenberg recipe that I’ve been making since her first book<\/a> came out in 2009.<\/p>\n

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2015 fruit & nut balls<\/p><\/div>\n

But, I made the Joy of Cooking<\/u> lebkuchen last night, my usual double batch, two 13 x 9 pans. I usually think they are kind of a slam dunk – they’re a bar cookie, much easier than the Rose’s Christmas Cookies<\/a> version that is delicious but really difficult – and not only did I forget to put the almonds in, they baked up kind of hard. I think Rose’s is like a traditional Nuremberg recipe<\/a>, candied fruit and nuts ground up and held together with egg – sticky, and they crumple up when you try to get them off the pan.<\/p>\n

So, tonight, rather than tackling another cookie kind, I packed the fruit & nut balls and cut and packed the lebkuchen, with an apple half to soften them up. And then I remade a single batch of the lebkuchen. And oh yeah, finally folded that second basket of laundry. Socks, handkerchiefs, and other critical items, considering that – knock wood and fingers crossed – our early cold weather in WI has continued even as I’ve started baking.<\/p>\n

And hope springs eternal in cookie season. I’ve always wanted to make mincemeat tarts<\/a> as part of the cookie pantheon, and this year I’m going to do it, and they’re going to be vegan. I made the mincemeat tonight, with coconut oil replacing the butter, and not replacing the brandy and dried fruits and candied orange peel and spices and it smells Christmas-y. I also set the fruit for the baby fruitcakes<\/a> to marinate in bourbon and sherry, and it smells Christmas-y, too.<\/p>\n

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