They say beer is liquid bread. I don’t know who they are; after enough beer they all look alike. But they have a point. The same ingredients that make good beer—water, grain, sugar, and yeast—make good bread, or cookies, except the proportions differ, and the cooking methods. Oh, and there’s the hops. All right, maybe it’s a stretch.

Regardless, today we’ll try to take the ingredients for a lovely and emotional opinion piece and reshape them into an effective Editorial cupcake. With luck, the practice will prepare you for your A04: Editorial Rewrite. Happy baking.