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Chewy molasses cookies loaded with warming ginger and cinnamon spice, perfect for holiday cookie swaps or cozy winter afternoons with hot cocoa.

Soft, spiced drop cookies loaded with fruity mincemeat filling. A holiday cookie jar staple that makes 3 dozen in 30 minutes. Old-fashioned flavor your grandmother would recognize.

Classic counting cake with foolproof 1-2-3-4-5 proportions: butter, sugar, flour, eggs, and baking powder create a tender vanilla cake that's ridiculously easy to memorize and bake from scratch.

Crisp rolled poppy seed cookies made with oil instead of butter, loaded with a third cup of soaked poppy seeds and a sugar-sparkle top. Simple dough, big crunch.

Slow cooker cherry bread studded with maraschino cherries and crunchy pecans. This sweet, moist loaf bakes right in your crock pot with no oven needed.

Cocanes are old-fashioned butter cookies made with brown sugar, shaped into fingers, and baked in a hot oven. No liquid needed. Just six ingredients, mixed by hand, yielding 2 dozen crumbly, buttery bites.

Homemade pancake batter from scratch with flour, egg, milk, and shortening. Double-sifted dry ingredients make thick, light pancakes every time.

Classic cornbread muffins with yellow cornmeal, lard, and just enough sugar for a lightly sweet crumb. A simple, old-fashioned recipe with six pantry staples.

Old-fashioned breakfast cake with a cinnamon-sugar streusel topping. A simple, not-too-sweet coffee cake made from pantry staples in about 40 minutes.

Bacon cornbread muffins with crispy diced bacon baked right into the batter. A savory, smoky twist on classic cornbread that bakes in just 15 minutes at high heat.

Peppermint pinwheel cookies with mint extract, rolled into red and white (or green) spirals and sliced. A festive holiday cookie that's all about the swirl.

Easy banana cake using a white cake mix, sour cream, and mashed bananas with chopped nuts. A semi-homemade shortcut that bakes up extra moist in two round layers.

Old-fashioned gingersnap cookies with molasses, ginger, and cinnamon, rolled in sugar and baked until crinkly. Oil-based for a chewy center with crisp edges.

Yorkshire parkin made with fine oatmeal, golden syrup, lard, ginger, and mixed spice. A traditional sticky English gingerbread that improves after a few days wrapped in foil.

Savory sausage corn muffins with bulk sausage baked into a cornmeal and flour batter. Golden, hearty breakfast muffins with a slightly sweet, crumbly crumb.

Grandma Thorpe's currant pancakes are griddled rolled biscuit-style pancakes studded with dried currants, buttered hot, and dusted with sugar. A British-Welsh heritage breakfast or tea-time treat.