Fruit recipe collection

Traditional buttermilk soda bread with no yeast needed bakes into crusty golden rounds in under an hour (toss in raisins for classic Irish Spotted Dog).

Bread machine Irish soda bread with raisins, caraway seeds, and buttermilk powder. A hands-off yeasted soda bread variation sized for small, medium, or large breadmakers.

Italian cream cake stacks three buttermilk-tender layers loaded with toasted pecans and shredded coconut, then crowns it all with cream cheese frosting. A Southern bakery showpiece.

Traditional Italian fig cookies (cucidati) with a sweet filling of dried figs, raisins, walnuts, and cinnamon wrapped in a buttery dough. A classic holiday cookie from Italian-American bakeries.

Italian raisin bread for the bread machine: a savory-sweet loaf with golden raisins, pine nuts and fresh rosemary baked right into a soft eggy crumb. Drop in, hit start, add raisins on the beep.

Italian spring bread for the bread machine, a lightly sweet honey loaf scented with star anise and studded with golden raisins. Perfect for Easter brunch and morning toast.

Delicate Italian dessert crepes filled with sweetened ricotta and fresh strawberries. Elegant rolled crepes dusted with powdered sugar, perfect for special breakfasts or desserts.

Why bother making Jello when you can try this rich pudding made of bananas and vanilla wafers.

Jamaican curry chicken with coconut milk, potatoes, allspice, and fresh ginger simmered until tender. Serve over steamed rice with mango chutney for a Caribbean feast.

Jamaican rice and peas simmered in creamy coconut milk with red kidney beans, garlic, thyme, and scallion. A fragrant one-pot Caribbean side where the 'peas' are actually beans, vegan and naturally gluten-free.

James Beard's persimmon bread folds ripe persimmon puree into a spiced quick-bread batter with cognac, mace, raisins, and walnuts. Legendary holiday bread adapted for the bread machine.

Serving a crowd, a traditional mincemeat recipe using cost saving cuts of meat capable once used in other recipes of serving up to 50 people. Marinated in cognac and other liqueurs in an old fashioned crock for weeks.

Jan's 1940s apple pie heaped with McIntosh and Cortland apples, finished with a quick water-rinse trick on the top crust that produces an exceptionally flaky finish.

German apple cake loaf with whole wheat flour, bran, Granny Smith apples, golden raisins, and warm spices. A hearty, wholesome apple bread that's dense and fruit-studded.

Jello ice cream pie: a no-bake summer pie made from Jello powder dissolved with vanilla ice cream and frozen fruit, set in a pie shell. Four ingredients, no oven, retro and refreshing.

Buttery slice-and-bake cookies studded with candied fruit, walnuts, and raisins. Freeze the dough ahead, slice thin, and bake for festive sparkle in every bite.