When I was in high school our AP English class decided to hold a James Joyce Day. My friend and I decided that the celebration needed to have bright green sugar cookies. I provided a reliable cookie recipe and the school let us use their lunchroom kitchen. So here we have 2 inexperienced teenage bakers working together with unfamiliar industrial equipment. We quadrupled the recipe since we needed a lot of cookies, but with each of us unaware of what the other was doing, somehow the flour only got doubled. So, in addition to having a full sheet pan of sticky goo, it was bright emerald green, to boot. Appropriately Joycean, but totally inedible. Someone ran out for more flour and I eventually learned about the joys of parchment paper. I know write out the recipe conversions when I do a multiplier and I never "split" baking tasks with someone else. Seems to me another Bloomsday Baking adventure is in order! As a veteran English Lit major, I particularly loved your tale! Susan

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