Walnut Recipes

Poor Man's Cake: a Depression-era boiled raisin cake spiced with cinnamon, cloves and allspice. No eggs, no milk, no butter. Just pantry basics, lard and the magic of plumped raisins.

Porcupine quills are vintage no-flour cookies made with dates, walnuts, brown sugar, and egg whites, rolled in flaked coconut. Chewy, sweet, and naturally gluten-free.

Pork Pinwheels with Roasted-Garlic Mayonnaise recipe

Potetboller are Norwegian fried potato balls spiked with minced anchovies, mustard, and a whisper of mace, then breaded and deep fried to a crackling golden shell. Salty, savory, and dangerously snackable.

Povatica bread dough for the bread machine, a sweet enriched yeast dough that becomes the base for Slovenian walnut-filled rolled povatica.

Egg-free bran muffins loaded with chopped apples, dried apricots, and walnuts, made with apple juice and all-bran cereal. Brushed with cinnamon sugar while hot.

Frozen fig and chocolate ice cream mousse with vanilla wafers, toasted walnuts, instant coffee, and whipped cream. A retro molded dessert garnished with whole figs.

Old-fashioned prune cake with buttermilk, pecans, and warm spices soaked in a boiled buttermilk-butter sauce. Needs three days to cure for the richest, most intense flavor.

Prune cake is an old-fashioned Southern holiday spice cake with chopped prunes, pecans, buttermilk, and warm spices, soaked with a buttermilk-butter sauce. Three-day rest deepens flavor.

Pumpkin chocolate chiffon pie with a no-bake chocolate-walnut crust and an airy spiced pumpkin chiffon filling. A holiday showpiece blending pumpkin and chocolate flavors.

Pumpkin date nut bread for the bread machine combines pumpkin pie filling, whole wheat flour, warm spices, walnuts, and chopped dates. Hands-off yeast loaf on the fruit and nut cycle.

Pumpkin drop cookies with warm spice, chocolate chips, and toasted walnuts. Soft, cakey fall cookies for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and everything in between.

Pumpkin pudding cake baked in a tube pan with canned pumpkin, orange juice, raisins, walnuts, cinnamon, and cloves. Dense and moist with a pudding-like crumb. Served warm with yogurt.

Pumpkin walnut cream cheesecake with a toasted walnut crust, spiced pumpkin filling, and a brown sugar walnut praline topping. A holiday-worthy dessert that splits the difference between cheesecake and pumpkin pie.

Vegetarian pumpkin walnut loaf: fresh pumpkin, rice, walnuts and herbs baked together and served with a quick stewed tomato sauce. A fall main dish that doesn't apologize for being meat-free.

Date drop cookies studded with chopped dates and walnuts and warmly spiced with cinnamon and cloves. A drop-and-bake batter with no chilling or rolling, ready for the cookie jar in well under an hour.