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• Baking for Bookworms: Sugared Biscuits from Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries

  July 21, 2015

  Baking for Bookworms

  baking for bookworms, cookie recipes, dessert, Eleanor Catton, sugar cookies, sugared biscuits, The Luminaries

  There’s not much food mentioned in The Luminaries, and most of it revolves around tea, a tradition observed even in the sparse, rustic setting of gold rush era New Zealand. The rest of the food mentioned is alternatively gruel type porridge dishes and various camp stews, neither of which is as appealing as a cookie… The…