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Whole wheat and cornmeal muffins sweetened with honey and made oil-free with applesauce. These low-fat, dairy-free muffins are simple pantry-staple baking at its most wholesome.

Mexican Yuletide cookies (polvorones) with butter, oatmeal, and pecans rolled in powdered sugar while warm. A crumbly, nutty holiday cookie that makes 6.5 dozen from one batch.

Nutty carob chip cookies sweetened with honey and made with whole wheat flour. Caffeine-free chocolate-chip-cookie alternative for the carob-loving, health-conscious snacker.

Bread machine white pan bread with unbleached all-purpose flour, butter, and active dry yeast. A basic sandwich loaf that bakes hands-off while the machine does the mixing, kneading, and proofing.

Homemade Grape-Nuts cereal from scratch using whole wheat flour, brown sugar, buttermilk, and maple flavoring. Bake, crumble, and dry for crunchy, nutty cereal you control.

Lincolnshire plum bread, a traditional English yeasted fruit loaf with prunes, currants, golden raisins, cinnamon, and allspice. A buttery, spiced bread that slices beautifully for tea.

Bread machine oatmeal bread sweetened with applesauce instead of sugar. A light, hearty whole-grain loaf with a tender crumb. Set it and forget it for fresh-baked bread in the morning.

Slice-and-bake coconut refrigerator cookies with a coconut-crusted exterior and a pecan half on top. Crispy, buttery, and freezer-friendly for up to three months of fresh-baked cookies on demand.

Appalachian stack cake is a 10-layer mountain heirloom: molasses-spice cookie layers pressed together with dried apple filling. Best after three days of resting.

Simple lentil stew with potatoes, carrots, and thyme served over rice. A hearty, budget-friendly one-pot meal that's naturally vegan and high in fiber.

Deep-dish pear pie with Anjou pears in a creamy yogurt custard filling, topped with a cinnamon streusel crumb. Nutmeg and vanilla round out this lighter take on a fruit pie.

Aunt Catherine's Italian Cookies: a heirloom cookie with almond extract, cinnamon, and chopped nuts, finished in pastel-colored powdered sugar icing. Stores for months in tins.

Bread machine brown breakfast bread, a whole-wheat quick bread sweetened with honey and molasses, studded with raisins, and warmed with ginger, cinnamon, and allspice. Hands-off breakfast loaf.

Soft, yeasted rolls swirled with brown sugar, cinnamon, and black walnuts, baked in a buttery butterscotch coating that pools over each warm roll. Old-fashioned sticky bun goodness from scratch.

Fat-free oatmeal drop cookies with applesauce standing in for butter or oil, rolled oats, and raisins. No eggs, naturally vegan, and done in just 10 minutes.

Moist beet nut bread with shredded beets, warm cinnamon, nutmeg, and crunchy chopped nuts. Think zucchini bread's earthy, ruby-colored cousin baked into a tender loaf.