Kekszeit

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My flatmate is an excellent cook and baker (I used to think that having cooking classes in high school is unnecessary because people can learn cooking at home but now I think it's a great idea) and this year she again baked nine different kinds of Christmas cookies. Today we ate some and lamented that while you could in theory make the same cookies in other months than December, it just feels weird. Like eating Faschingskrapfen not during Fasching. But then, after realizing that the same ban mysteriously doesn't apply to chocolate chip cookies because they're not associated with Christmas, I got the fantastic idea that in other months instead of calling them "Kekse" we'll just call them "cookies" and I think it might actually work. I really hope so because especially her nougat cookies, and the ones with rolled oats, and the ones with cardamom, and those with egg liqueur were all fantastic.

In general there will be more baking in the new year than in the past few months because she's finally done with her strict nutritionist-prescribed diet (for now...) and clearly that needs to be celebrated. With baking.

Comments

[extrapenguin]

Ooh, cookies! Om nom nom.

Cooking classes in school are a good idea in general, since not everyone's parents have time to teach the kids cooking, and there are always those families that subsist on readymade microwave meals... Part of the great equalizing mandate of the school system.

[anotherslashfan]

True enough, but sadly, the Germany-German school system isn't intended to equalize, I'm afraid. There weren't any cooking classes at my school because, I guess, at a "grammar school" type of school, cooking classes aren't quite "academically focused" enough :( That was for the "easier" secondary schools.

[schneefink]

Yeah, sadly cooking as a skill is not highly valued.

[schneefink]

I didn't even think of that! But you're absolutely right, that's an important aspect. Especially since cooking classes should also include nutrition (and that would even be good for the health care system as a whole, seriously I don't understand why nutrition education isn't a bigger thing, at least here it's barely existent.)