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Lemon Ginger Wafers

In the Cookie Classics section of Cookies and Brownies, there are two lemon wafer recipes. Lemon wafers have always evoked springtime for me - bright, sunny flavors, a clean spicy scent, and delicate like a little tuft of cake. These lemon ginger wafers are no exception - the freshly shaved ginger and the tangy lemon zest dance about your mouth and marry with sugar for crisp buttery edges.

That is, once you get them baked.

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Rhubarb Rose Bitters

This bitters recipe is completely original – and is a real experiment. Todd added the essential things to make it bitter, but it will take a little while before we know if the experiment is a success or not!

From our first tastes and smells, the results are wonderful.

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Abbott's Bitters

I don’t know what started Todd’s exploration of bitters – maybe it was an episode of Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie that sent him on that path. Making your own bitters is a relatively simple thing to do if you have a well-stocked spice drawer, a bunch of fresh herbs in the garden, and a Chinese medicine apothecary or other herbalist nearby for those odd things.

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MFK Fisher's Ginger Hottendots

I got this recipe from Richard Sax’s Classic Home Desserts. This is a basic spicy gingersnap recipe that comes from MFK Fisher’s catalog, and it’s a lovely grown-up cookie. I like to make double batches of this dough to keep it on hand during the holidays, because it’s a fast-baking cookie that isn’t too sweet and works well for tea and coffee.

After rolling the dough into little balls, I like to roll it in sugar – either vanilla or rosemary – and then drop them onto the baking sheet and into a hot oven.

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