10,000 butter recipes

Pasta with crab sauce: sweet crab meat folded into a light tomato and white wine sauce with shallot and celery, tossed over hot pasta. An elegant seafood pasta that comes together in about half an hour.

Chilled zucchini soup with marjoram, finished with cream just before serving. A silky, pale green summer soup that uses up the season's overgrown zucchini.

Creamy sour cream cheesecake studded with semi-sweet chocolate chunks on a chocolate cookie crust. Baked, then slow-cooled in the oven for a crack-free, silky finish.

This very old recipe is famous for the artistic, decorative sculpture arranged on top. The picture in the cookbook has the upper outer edge circled with a braid of dough and cut-outs of ducks arranged flat on the top.

Pressure cooker broccoli corn chowder with leeks and potatoes, ready in under an hour. Chunky, creamy, and packed with fresh vegetables.

Easy, moist and tasty coffee cake is perfect with a cup of coffee in the afternoon!

Mimi's bread pudding made with French bread soaked in evaporated milk, bananas, raisins, and a full ounce of vanilla. Served with a buttery whiskey sauce.

Maple walnut bars with raisins, melted butter, and just 7 ingredients mixed in one bowl. Chewy, nutty cookie bars baked in an 8-inch pan and cut into squares.

Sopa de elote is a creamy Mexican corn soup made from pureed corn simmered in milk with sweet and hot peppers. Garnished with fried tortilla strips and crumbled cheese.

Chile con queso made on the stovetop with melty American cheese, sauteed onion, fresh tomato, and green chiles spiked with hot sauce. A smooth, scoopable queso dip ready in minutes for chips and game day.

Buttermilk Swedish flatbread (knäckebröd-style) blends rye flour, all-purpose flour, buttermilk, and fragrant fennel seeds into thin, crisp rounds baked in just 5 minutes. A traditional Scandinavian crispbread for cheese, butter, or smoked fish.

Microwave crab-stuffed jumbo shrimp butterflied and topped with a buttery crab meat, breadcrumb, and lemon filling with cayenne. An easy appetizer ready in 20 minutes.

Velvety curried cream soup with coconut milk, chicken broth, and a swirl of cream. This French-Indian fusion starter comes together in just 25 minutes.

Mrs. Fields $250 cookie recipe with ground oatmeal, double chocolate (chips and grated bar), two cups of butter, and chopped nuts. Makes 8 dozen legendary cookies.

Creamy apple pie with a sour cream custard filling and cinnamon crumb topping. Simple Pennsylvania Dutch baking with no spices in the filling, just pure apple flavor.

Flourless Passover chocolate almond torte with bittersweet chocolate, ground almonds, and a rich chocolate-butter icing. Kosher for Pesach with no wheat flour.