Recipes
My recipes cater for all tastes (so long as your taste includes lots of garlic and an abundance of chilli). They are tasty, innovative and easy to prepare.
They were originally written for my novelty Christmas cards, which consist of recipes collected during the year and a tiny space where I scribble my name. I hate both shopping and writing individual comments, and the cards were a way of getting out of both those arduous tasks.
I also started making panforte as part of the same goal. The panforte in a good year‡ is excellent!
‡ In 2003, for the first time since 2000, a very select few overseas friends received a sample or two. Luckily, it was delivered incident-free, so no-one ended up behind bars (in the packed state, panforte has been described as looking like "hash cookies packed in coke"). I only make the stuff.
As the collection grew, slowly, friends tried to get me to publish them as a book; but without a "name" author with his/her own TV show, this was not going to happen.
So this section of the pitt.net.au website gets the recipes out for you to enjoy.
Boring techo stuff
The recipes are now in Quadralay's WebWorks Help 5 format, converted from my Adobe FrameMaker 8 files (many were written originally in FrameMaker 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7; and before that, in Ventura Publisher 3).
The major features of this format are that it is cross platform, with optional contents page, index, search facility and favourites tab. Of course, I've used FrameMaker files for my source, but ePublisher also accepts Word and XML files.
This new version has a much faster and more accurate search engine, and appears to have no styling limits. It also includes a few other little surprises, such as the PDF button at the top right of the window. I have built and incorporated a PDF version of each recipe so that users can click the PDF button while viewing the HTML page to open the PDF version for printing, viewing and saving.
Click the WebWorks link to open the full Help. You can also open the complete original book by clicking the PDF link below.
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