Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

adrian_turtle just walked over with a copy of The Bakery Men Don't See, open to the "Ideologically Labile Fruit Crisp," and asked whether I am in contact with Eileen Gunn, whose recipe it was.

After I said not really, Adrian said "I assume she didn't test the recipe." The specific untested part is the long list of possible sweeteners, which starts with various kinds of sugar and ends "...treacle, fruit preserves, raisins, dates, or gummi bears."

One of Adrian's friends just tried baking rainbow challah, using gummi bears for the rainbow colors. She reports that the gummi bears melted, then solidified into hard candy, and the resulting loaf was stuck to the pan.

This recipe is where I got (slightly paraphrased) "take into consideration any special-interest groups, such as 5-year-olds." I'd thought "consider special interest groups, such as five-year-olds" was from the suggestion to sweeten with gummi bears, but apparently not: having gotten out the book, I see that the special-interest groups and the suggestion of gummi bears are on different pages. Because I am not five years old, when Adrian quotes the part about "special-interest groups" she usually means that she is cooking me sweet potatoes or using ginger in a recipe.

Somewhere along the line, I also combined two different parts of this recipe to get "if you feel the need to peel and slice berries, call 911 or consult your therapist."