Recipe Sifter

Applejack apple slab pie bakes 25 sliced tart apples with cinnamon and butter between a shortening pastry crust in a sheet pan, then drizzles with a sweet cream glaze. Crowd-feeding holiday pie.

Dense, fudgy brownies made with real unsweetened chocolate and loaded with chopped walnuts, then layered with raspberry jam and a glossy chocolate glaze. Finished with chocolate-dipped walnuts for a bakery-worthy presentation.

Quick and easy cinnamon rolls without the 3 hour preparation/bake time with traditional yeast cinnamon rolls. "There is just something about cinnamon and sugar, SO GOOD!"

Dense dark pumpernickel with rye flour, molasses, caraway, and cocoa. Makes 2 round loaves with chewy crust and earthy flavor for hearty sandwiches or deli-style eating.

Chocolate crinkle cookies with a frozen marshmallow surprise hidden inside, rolled in sugar and baked until they just crack. Fudgy, gooey, and fun for holiday baking.

This is a very pretty cake with the thin sliced almonds and the sugar not dissolved on top.

It has eleven herbs and spices? The Original Recipe is now packaged in three different places. The way it is cooked and the process makes it taste like it has eleven herbs and spices when in reality there is not. The way it is done in the restaurant is using dried eggs and milk in the flour along with a box of breading salt and the seasoning bag and a bag of breading flour.

Moist pumpkin bread with cinnamon, nutmeg and crunchy walnuts baked in a single loaf pan. A cozy Southern quick bread that keeps for days and fills the kitchen with warm spice.

Old-fashioned sugar cookies made with sour milk, nutmeg, and shortening. A versatile dough that can be dropped soft or rolled and cut into shapes for Valentine's, Christmas, or birthday cookies.

Chocolate brownies spiked with amaretto in both the batter and the chocolate frosting, finished with sliced almonds. A grown-up brownie with deep almond and unsweetened chocolate notes.

Old-school Southern fried chicken soaked in a rich cream-and-egg bath, dredged in paprika-spiked flour, and fried in a trinity of bacon drippings, shortening, and butter.

Sour cream raisin pie is an old-fashioned Midwestern custard pie with plump raisins suspended in tangy sour cream filling, scented with nutmeg and vanilla. Simple flaky crust, no meringue required.

Chocolate dipped macadamia nut shortbread cookies made with butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Slice-and-bake rounds dipped in melted chocolate for a Hawaiian-inspired treat.

Pork schnitzel pounded thin, breaded with paprika-spiked crumbs, and pan-fried golden, then served with a creamy sour cream and dill pan sauce. A weeknight take on the German tavern classic with an Eastern European twist.

Peanut butter bars for a crowd yields 8 dozen from three sheet pans. A big-batch recipe with a chewy, dense peanut butter cookie base dusted with powdered sugar.

Traditional Italian anise pizzelle cookies pressed on a pizzelle iron with orange and lemon zest. A huge batch recipe that makes up to 20 dozen crisp, lacy waffle cookies.