My wife, the baker in the family, took one look at our recent harvest of overwintered carrots and knew what she had to make: carrot cake. I know what you are thinking: There could hardly be anything more mundane than carrot cake. But trust me: once you’ve made it with carrots you’ve grown in your […]
Steamed brown bread, a New England tradition, was a treat for us even growing up in the Midwest. We ate it out of a can (I never knew it any other way) and it was always something exotic and mysterious when it arrived on our dinner plate, almost on a par with getting chow mein […]
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The aroma of old-fashioned gingerbread baking in the oven automatically signals the arrival of Christmas. With its strange mix of molasses, cloves, nutmeg and other spices, gingerbread is an anachronism. Yet somehow it has maintained its grip on the holiday tradition. Personally, I don’t care much for gingerbread cookies or the stuff that gingerbread houses […]
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