Category: By Technique

Stewed Black Beans

Recipe Yellow or red onion, one medium or large Finely chop the onion, or use a food processor to chop it to small even pieces. A medium saucepot and a big spoon Olive oil Put the saucepot on high heat. Pour in olive oil to lightly coat the bottom of the pan. After the pot

Cornbread

Adapted from “Baking Illustrated”. Preheat oven & baking pan at 425ºF. 120 g (1 cup) yellow cornmeal 120 g (1 cup) all purpose flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 tsp. salt [whisk together, form a well] 1/2 cup melted butter 2 lg. eggs 1 1/2 cups milk [combine]

Cream Biscuits

Piglet’s fool-proof recipe for pre-coffee morning biscuits. Preheat oven to 375 deg. F. Select a mixing bowl and a large mixing fork. • self-rising flour, 1 1/2 cups (160 grams)• Sugar, 1 tablespoon, or to taste Stir the flour and sugar together into the bowl. Note: If you don’t have self-rising flour, substitute 1 1/2

Gale Gand’s giant’s thumbprint butter cookies

From butter sugar flour eggs, by Gale Gand, dessert goddess. 1/2 lb. butter (2 sticks) 2/3 cup sugar 1/4 vanilla bean scrapings 1/4 tsp. salt 260 g. flour jam of your preference Cream butter, sugar; vanilla, salt. Mix in flour, slowly. Roll dough into golf balls, place 2″ apart. Make a well, insert jam. Bake

Cherry pie

2 pints sour cherries 1/2 cup sugar 1.5 Tablespoons cornstarch a dash of Aberlour (or kirsch or light rum, etc.) Mix together, let set for half an hour. Pour into piecrust; butter the top; bake (375ºF) 45? min (until done). Re: buttering the top — if you make a lattice crust, put butter pats on

Speculaas cookie spices

Speculaas spice mix, which I use whenever sweet spices are called for. 3 parts by weight cinnamon, ground 1 part by weight blade mace, ground 1 part by weight cloves, ground 1 part by weight ginger, ground 1 part by weight coriander seeds, ground 1 part by weight black pepper, ground Taken from Kay Dekker’s

Cheesecake

The Evans family cheesecake recipe. Crust: 1 2/3 cup graham cracker crumbs 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 2 Tbl. sugar 3 oz. butter Filling: 1 1/2 lb. cream cheese 1 cup sugar 1/2 tsp. vanilla 3 eggs juice 1 lemon Topping: 1 pt. sour cream 1/2 tsp. vanilla 3 Tbl. sugar Crust: melt butter, mix with

Applesauce-molasses cake

This is the traditional birthday cake of my family. 1/2 cup butter (1 stick, in the US) 1/2 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 cup molasses (Grandma’s unsulphured [with the yellow top], in the US) 1 cup applesauce 2 cups flour 1 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. baking soda 2 tsps. speculaas cookie spices *OR* 1

Best cookies evah!

1 c. butter 220 g. brown sugar 1 egg 150 g. muesli 185 g. raisins 180 g. all purpose flour (or bread flour, or whatever you have on hand) 2 t. baking powder 1 t. salt 1/4 t. baking soda [for the scale deficient: 1 1/2 c. brown sugar 1 1/4 c. muesli 1 1/2

Banana bread

So tasty, I must write it down. (Baker’s Illustrated crossed with Joy of Cooking.) 240 g (2 c.) flour 1/2 t salt 3/4 t baking soda 3/4 c. brown sugar 2 eggs, beaten 1/4 c. sour cream 1 t vanilla 6 T melted butter 3 overripe bananas, mashed Whisk dry. Beat wet. Fold bananas into