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Crispy, paper-thin chocolate lace cookies made with melted butter and unsweetened chocolate. Only 8 ingredients, 30 minutes, and you've got 3 dozen elegant holiday treats.

Traditional Wiener Schnitzel with milk-fed veal pounded paper-thin, triple-breaded, and fried until the coating ripples golden. Served with lemon wedges, the way Vienna intended.

Cubed ham and sweet corn folded into a mustard-spiked white sauce made with skim milk, baked under a crunchy breadcrumb and cheese topping until golden and bubbly. A hearty, diabetic-friendly casserole ready in 40 minutes.

Best apple raspberry pie: tart Granny Smith apples and jewel-bright raspberries spiced with cinnamon under a flaky, folded lard crust. A sweet-tart twist on classic apple pie.

Hearty peasant bread with rye flour, bran, cornmeal, and caraway seeds bound by molasses and yeast. A rustic two-loaf yeast bread that holds up to butter and stew.

Elegant abalone steaks pounded thin, dipped in egg and flour, pan-fried in butter, then rolled around creamy crabmeat stuffing with shallots, lemon, mustard, and white sauce.

By adding ricotta cheese into the dough makes the bread very moist, also it adds the delicious creamy taste to bread.

Portuguese corn bread (broa) for the bread machine with a high ratio of cornmeal to bread flour and olive oil. Rustic, golden, and slightly gritty with a crisp crust.

Paris-Brest style cream puff pastry: piped pâte à choux rings baked with slivered almonds, split and filled with pastry cream, dusted with powdered sugar. A French patisserie classic at home.

Toad in the hole, the British pub classic. Browned sausages baked into puffy, golden Yorkshire pudding batter for a crackly-edged Sunday supper. Served with Dijon mustard.

Make-ahead bloomin' sauce and dip with sour cream, cream cheese, and picante sauce, ready for chips, pretzels, or fried onion petals. Five ingredients, one bowl, eight hours of fridge time to do its work.

The original 1939 Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe, straight from Ruth Wakefield's kitchen. Butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and semi-sweet chips with chopped walnuts. Makes 100 cookies with crispy edges and chewy, melty centers.

Dairy-free pumpkin tapioca pudding made with rice milk, tapioca flour, and canned pumpkin. Vegan, gluten-free, and ready in under 20 minutes. Optional licorice root adds a unique twist.

Refreshingly easy chilled beet soup recipe with fresh beets, lemon, and sour cream garnish. Perfect for hot summer days: no-stove cooking, beginner-friendly microwave method for "simple cold beet soup recipes," "healthy vegetarian summer soups," and "quick no-cook beet borscht alternatives."

An easier bread maker bagel recipe; use your bread machine to learn how to make bagels; fresh, warm, soft, and chewy.

Honey poppy seed muffins with whole wheat pastry flour and sunflower oil. Boiling milk activates poppy seeds for intense nutty flavor. Naturally sweetened brunch muffins make 12.