This recipe thread is beginning to be quite long on its own.

Over the last few days I've had a couple of disappointments in the baking department. I was converting a bread (it's actually almost a batter) from the old recipe with egg beater and bowl to one that would work in a bread machine (through the kneading, then shape into small loaves and bake) but one of the three batches was a blob. And it took two tries to get the spritz (that are made with a cookie press) to come out right. I am pretty sure it was operator error, but I've made these so often over the years it's hard to conceive what I could have done that would literally render both of them trash-worthy.

The rest of the baking was good and I'll be distributing small bags to friends and neighbors of a mix of these things each wrapped in waxed paper.