At this time of year many newspapers and web sites have recipes for holiday cookies (or outside of North America, holiday biscuits), e.g., “Holiday Cookie Recipes from Newspaper Food Sections,” “Our Favorite Holiday Cookies,” “12 Days of Cookies,” and “Christmas Recipes: Gingerbread Snowflake Biscuits.”
The Relative Index entries “Biscuits (Cookies)—home preparation” and “Cookies—home preparation” both lead to 641.8654 Cookies. The entry for 641.8654 has the note “Variant name: biscuits (United Kingdom).”
The Relative Index entry “Holidays—cooking” leads to 641.568 Cooking for special occasions, and the Relative Index entry “Christmas—cooking” leads to 641.5686 Christmas cooking.
Most cookies are baked. The Relative Index entry “Baking—home cooking” leads to 641.71 Baking and roasting.
Which number has preference, 641.8654 or 641.568+ or 641.71? The see references at 641.5 Cooking have hierarchical force: “For specific cooking processes and techniques, see 641.7; for cooking specific kinds of dishes, preparing beverages, see 641.8.” The class-elsewhere note at 641.7 Specific cooking processes and techniques has hierarchical force: “Class specific processes applied to specific kinds of dishes, preparing beverages in 641.8.” Hence 641.8654 has preference, because of the notes above 641.568+ and 641.71 that lead away from 641.5 and 641.7 and their subdivisions and toward 641.8 and its subdivisions. Works on baking holiday cookies are classed in 641.8654, e.g., Baking with Bill: Fancy Holiday Cookies: 17 Video Baking Lessons, A Baker's Field Guide to Christmas Cookies, Christmas Cookies: 50 Recipes to Treasure for the Holiday Season, and Santa's Favourite Biscuits.
Love the examples you cited!
Libbie
Posted by: Libbie Crawford | December 10, 2009 at 04:07 PM
just made these holiday cookies: http://glammed.blogspot.com/2009/12/easy-holiday-cookies.html
very easy!
Posted by: elledee | December 21, 2009 at 12:07 PM