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Issue No. 119: Springerles

December 12, 2019 Val Neff-Rasmussen / by Val Neff-Rasmussen

Think of springerles as the medieval greeting card of cookies for the 14th century’s 1%. Many of the foods we sell started out as peasant foods, the cuisine of the 99% in a way. Springerles are not one of them. Springerles (pronounced shpring-er-lees) are cookies originally from the Swabia region in southern Germany, where they’re […]

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Issue No. 118: Robert Lambert Talks Fruit Cakes

December 5, 2019 Robert Lambert / by Robert Lambert

Over the years that I’ve been making fruit cakes, I’ve been asked to modify them for the health regimen or the passing fancy—possibly both—of any number of customers. Don’t change the taste, just make it vegan. Or gluten-free. Just leave out the eggs. The butter. Or the flour. The salt for one with heart problems, […]

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