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 […]
Apple butter is just a hop, skip and jump from applesauce. So if you already know how to make applesauce, you are just a couple of steps from having apple butter. There’s no dairy in apple “butter.” But it is thicker and darker than apple sauce–another of the thousand or so uses for apples our […]
In my experience, the more ingredients, the better the muffin. That must be what makes these pumpkin muffins so good: two different kinds of flour, two different kinds of sugar, three different spices, buttermilk, ricotta cheese, vanilla. What’s not to like? Pumpkin muffins proved to be the perfect antidote to all the pickling we’ve been […]
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