The Great Cookbook Weed, Part Whatever
Dec. 7th, 2022 06:25 pmI'm actually getting rid of one this time.
I had high hopes for Baking by Flavor when I bought it, and I really wanted to like it, and then I realized that we have intended to bake things from it probably four or five times now and never quite managed it in large part because of how annoyingly the recipes are written. There's a lot of things that are separate recipes of the "now add one recipe of X, page whatever" that really shouldn't be separate recipes and a lot of odd steps, and I've never actually managed following one all the way through enough to figure out what I'd need to bake it.
On looking at the table of contents we realized it has no recipes that are really unique to it; they're all for fairly common standard things that I almost certainly have better-written elsewhere in the collection (at the very least in How to Bake Everything), so this one goes away.
Paring down the collection is going slowly, but it's going.
I had high hopes for Baking by Flavor when I bought it, and I really wanted to like it, and then I realized that we have intended to bake things from it probably four or five times now and never quite managed it in large part because of how annoyingly the recipes are written. There's a lot of things that are separate recipes of the "now add one recipe of X, page whatever" that really shouldn't be separate recipes and a lot of odd steps, and I've never actually managed following one all the way through enough to figure out what I'd need to bake it.
On looking at the table of contents we realized it has no recipes that are really unique to it; they're all for fairly common standard things that I almost certainly have better-written elsewhere in the collection (at the very least in How to Bake Everything), so this one goes away.
Paring down the collection is going slowly, but it's going.