Recipe Sifter

Mexicali pasta pie with a spaghetti crust, cottage cheese layer, and spiced ground pork with green chiles and tomatoes, topped with cheddar and crushed corn chips. All microwave.

Unique fresh apple flavor - no cooking of filling. Just put grated apples sugar and spice into a pie shell, and top it off with whipped cream. One of the easiest apple pies you every heard of! This recipe was a $5,000 winner in the Junior Pillsbury bake off in the Third Grand National baking contest, December 1951

Buttery quick bread loaf swirled with raspberry or strawberry jam and topped with a warm fruit glaze. No yeast needed for this tender, lightly sweet bread that's ideal for brunch or afternoon tea.

Soft apple cookies loaded with raisins, nuts, and warm spices, topped with a vanilla powdered sugar glaze. Apple juice in the batter doubles down on fresh apple flavor.

Date and nut bars with chopped dates, pecans, and powdered sugar rolled into chewy little squares. An old-fashioned cookie bar that's dense, fruity, and naturally sweet with minimal flour.

Carmelitas wrap chocolate cookie dough around a soft caramel center, then dunk the baked cookies in a glossy chocolate glaze. Surprise-center holiday cookie that bakes up in 7 minutes.

Deep dish blueberry pie with a buttery egg yolk crust, rum-spiked filling, and eight cups of berries baked until bubbling. A top-crust-only pie loaded with fruit and lightly spiced with cinnamon.

A light, soufflé-style cheesecake made with sieved cottage cheese, grated Swiss cheese, and whipped egg whites on a shortbread crust. Not your typical cheesecake, and that's the point.

Irish soda bread made with sour cream, raisins, and currants. A tender, cake-like loaf baked in a casserole dish with no yeast and no kneading required.

Beer-braised round steak slow-baked for 3 hours with onions, garlic, beef bouillon, brown sugar, and thyme. Fork-tender beef with a rich gravy, served over noodles or rice.

Floured cube steak browned in lard and simmered in a tangy homemade barbecue sauce with ketchup, Worcestershire, brown sugar, and lemon juice. Old-fashioned comfort food, fork-tender in about an hour.

German-style honey spice bars with cinnamon, allspice, cloves, ground almonds, and lemon zest, finished with a rum-almond glaze. These keep for weeks in a sealed container, making them ideal holiday baking.

Almond poppy seed muffins with a light, tender crumb. Simple pantry ingredients, mixed by hand in one bowl, and ready in 35 minutes. Nutty, lightly sweet, and studded with crunchy poppy seeds.

Cocoa pudding cake that bakes its own fudgy sauce underneath a tender chocolate cake layer. No eggs, no butter, just pantry staples and pure chocolate magic.

Chocolate cake made with mashed potatoes for an incredibly moist, dense crumb. Unsweetened chocolate melted in milk and whipped egg whites keep it light.

This is absolutely great, full of flavor and very moist, denfinitely a keeper for my family.