Recipe Sifter

Rich onion soup with six types of alliums: yellow onions, red onions, white onions, shallots, leeks, and scallions. Bacon-enriched, partially pureed, finished with cream.

French onion tart with a handmade butter pastry, slow-cooked onions, bacon, and a silky cream custard. Baked low and slow for a rich, golden filling.

Traditional Ukrainian walnut filling for stuffed pastries, kolaches, and rolls. Light butter-and-sugar base whipped with egg whites and bound with grated walnuts and a splash of cream.

Oysters Bienville, the classic New Orleans baked oyster dish with a rich shrimp and mushroom cream sauce, topped with parmesan and breadcrumbs. Old-school Creole indulgence.

Oysters Rockefeller, the New Orleans classic appetizer with fresh oysters on the half shell topped with a rich spinach, scallion, and anchovy butter and broiled hot.

Bread machine doughnuts: enriched yeast dough kneaded by your bread maker on dough cycle, shaped into rings or twists, deep-fried golden, then dressed with chocolate, cinnamon sugar, or jelly fillings.

Pasta twists in a creamy asparagus sauce made with butter, olive oil, half-and-half, and a bouillon cube. A simple Italian-style pasta ready in 40 minutes.

Peach cream pie: halved fresh peaches baked under a cinnamon-cream custard in a flaky crust. Simple summer dessert from peak-season stone fruit.

Creamy peanut soup made with peanut butter, chicken broth, and sauteed onions, then pureed smooth. A rich Southern-style soup finished with cream and chopped peanuts.

Pecan pumpkin pie built on a jar of spiced pecan-pumpkin butter, eggs, and heavy cream poured into an all-butter homemade crust. Three ingredients in the filling, a smooth, deeply spiced custard out the other side.

Potatoes Thermidor with russet potatoes baked in a rich cream sauce of shallots, mushrooms, dry sherry, egg yolks, and cayenne. A French classic reimagined as an elegant side dish.

Vintage prune chocolate cupcakes made with cream, grated unsweetened chocolate, and cooked prunes. A moist, old-fashioned treat with no butter needed, ready in 30 minutes.

Mini pumpkin pie cookie cups with a cream cheese pastry shell, spiced pumpkin filling with rum and vanilla, and a crunchy pecan-brown sugar topping.

Elegant pumpkin spice layer cake with whipped cream frosting and toasted pecans. Butter-based batter with buttermilk, ginger, and allspice. Bakery-style fall celebration cake.

Spatchcocked roast turkey with cream gravy: backbone-removed bird that cooks in half the time, finished with a rich gravy of turkey stock, heavy cream, and nutmeg.

Raspberry almond layer cake sweetened with apple juice concentrate instead of sugar. Whipped cream and raspberry spread frosting, amaretto-brushed layers, and toasted almond crunch around the sides.