Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/19/a-childrens-book-recipe-for.html
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The spice cookies must flow.
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He who controls the cookies controls the universe.
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When God ordains a man’s time to make cookies, he sends him the correct recipe.
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I’m gratified to see the recipe does not require water.
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But where do we get the sandworms to process the spice?
It’s been too long since I read the books to remember details.
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You’d think that on Arrakis of all places, baking something wouldn’t be a problem.
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I can attest that I freakin’ LOVED that movie when I first saw it as a child, and although I didn’t have the activity or coloring books, I had various spice harvester toys, a sandworm, and a Paul Atreides action figure that would punch when you pressed his shield generator button. Damn shame they all went in a yard sale before a move.
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I just reread book 1 - they repeatedly say that spice smells like cinnamon (I am not a fan of cinnamon) now if it smelled like nutmeg… count me in!
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I wanted for the longest time to try and make my own Spice blend, to season things. wasn’t sure exactly what I’d put in it apart from cinnamon, but I figured the experimenting would be half the fun. never got around to doing it, though.
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Minus the cinnamon, this is my family’s xmas cookie recipe.
makes suspicious face at Grandma
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cinnamon comes from the bark of trees ergo is the spice’ on arrakis a kind of ancient thing like charcoal from when it was once a wet planet?
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My adult no-bake recipe has two steps - buy Sweetzels or Ivins, and then put your hand in the box 
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Do Guild Navigators also use Benadryl or generic equivalents?
Hoping your reaction wrt glucocorticoids is tapering off.
Yeah no kidding!
I have this. I use this. It works. And it doesn’t make the house hot because the sun is outside shining on it. It gets ferociously hot.
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Original pumpkin spice, eh? “Pumpkin spice” is just a version of gingerbread spices which go back to the middle ages as a spice mix for both savoury and sweet things. Nothing"original" about that.
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I think the author was just trying to make it seem trendy/relatable to people who like products labeled as “pumpkin spice.” I’m not a good judge of whether or not the cookies are like those products, because I don’t eat or drink anything labeled as pumpkin - never liked the taste of it. Those cookies were a staple of my childhood*, but you couldn’t pay me to eat a piece of pumpkin pie.
*OK, I still devour a box every year around Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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It’s made constantly by sand trout, deep in the sand.
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Just FYI: pumpkin spice doesn’t contain any pumpkin, it’s the spice FOR pumpkin not the spice MADE OF pumpkin. So you might actually enjoy it? But as I said it’s just gingerbread spices, really, reinvented by corporate America.
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