Have you ever eaten a croissant or a butter cookie?
How can a little flour, sugar, a bit of butter, leavening, and a dash of salt be so yummy? I’ve tasted the ingredients: flour is gritty, salt a bit sandy, butter is just greasy on the tongue, and yeast is plain yucky eaten from the package. No way could one predict that these ingredients, properly combined and baked, would be so tasty.
Do yourself a favor and don’t judge the spiritual gaming recipes in this book based on a simple reading of the instructions. That would be like judging a cake from reading its list of ingredients.
Cook up the recipe, and actually give it a try before you dismiss it as “not to your taste.”
Bon appetite.