BARNRAISING #13: Holiday Cookies! and How To Barnraising: Holiday Cookie How Tos?

Yummy, Christmas cookies! Can't wait to get started!

Looks like I was too late, all the How To Team cookie tasks seem to have been claimed. One additional point, @lon said pages with vertical mangers will pay 40% to the page manager not 50%.

Sure hate that I missed this one, it sounds like a lot of fun. Is there a set of three pages already done so we could see how the three work together? Will the How to Page have a recipe and have other recipes on the page about recipes?

Neat! I bet these pages will do really well, everyone should try to snatch up as many of these as possible. I know I did plenty of Googling online to try to find Christmas cookie recipes last year!

Good luck to everyone who participates!

Great for Christmas and the holidays. I am thinking of doing some tasks.

I thought I'd post this: it's a page from the copyright office about the legal status of recipes and anyone doing the how-to pages should read it. copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html In a nutshell, a "formula" - the bare list of ingredients and the assembly procedure - is not copyright-able, but "signifigant literary expression" that might be a part of it is. And regardless of this, any sufficiently entrenched company with a legal budget may make noises if it's obvious someone used "their" recipie.

Now, in baking, you can't simply change recipe around and have it work unless you're experienced enough to know what you're doing, so you'll have to find other ways to put it "in your own words". So, that's some food for thought. I may jump on some of these because I love cooking and baking but I've always been hesitant to do cooking how-tos because the recipes I use most, from places like Cook's Illustrated someone spent days or weeks in a test kitchen getting a recipe just right and I would feel guilty lifting it straight from them, copyright or no.

Anyone want to respond with their thoughts on finding and working with "public domain" recipes?

Susan, this is a really great idea... I hadn't thought about 3 different types like that. Super! I was just thinking earlier today how great it would be if we had some how to barnraisings and regular barnraisings going at the same time that complimented each other well... and then you have this all ready to go!

It's like you read my mind but improved it. =D.

I would like to jump into it, making a page, and cookies are a nice task to make for a first attempt. I am new here at Mahalo, but I love it very much. I hope I'll succeed , a bit intimidated on doing it, don't know where to start.

Anyways, when I do, hope you'll give me your feedback, how it's (page) made. By the way, Congrats, I had seen the list of the November payout, you're great.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.