Recipe Sifter

Quick apple scones with chopped apple, sweet raisins, and warm cinnamon. Built like a pie crust with vegetable shortening and apple juice, no dairy required, ready in 30 minutes.

Fresh peach pie with a buttery crumb topping, cinnamon, and lemon juice. Sliced peaches macerate before baking for concentrated juicy flavor under a crispy streusel crust.

Walleye fillets seared and simmered in a homemade red wine sauce with garlic, thyme, tomato puree, and capers. A French-inspired freshwater fish dinner ready in 45 minutes.

Irish herb scones made from mashed potatoes, flour, and a blend of parsley, dill, savory, marjoram, and sage, then pan-fried until golden and crisp.

Date oatmeal bars with a thick, jammy date filling sandwiched between two layers of buttery oat crumble. A vintage three-layer bar cookie that's chewy, sweet, and wholesome.

Vegan Banana Loaf made with a flax egg and applesauce in place of eggs and butter. No dairy, no animal products. All-purpose flour gives the best result in this simple, reliable recipe.

Low-fat spiced bran muffins with molasses, honey, ginger, cloves, golden raisins, and walnuts. Made with egg whites and nonfat yogurt instead of butter and whole eggs.

Traditional English piccalilli with cauliflower, cucumber, pearl onions, and green tomatoes in a turmeric-mustard sauce. Homemade mustard pickle that improves with keeping.

Low-calorie ginger apple crisp with a cornflake crumb topping and crystallized ginger. Six apples baked bubbly under a crunchy, spiced streusel in 30 minutes.

Sonoran-style fry bread with ground toasted cumin and black pepper kneaded right into the dough. Puffy, golden, and crispy on the outside with a soft, pillowy center.

Lighter chocolate banana fudge cake made with whole wheat flour, mashed bananas, and egg whites instead of butter and yolks. Topped with a glossy cocoa glaze and chopped walnuts. Rich without the heaviness.

Easy oxtail soup with onions, carrots, and turnip simmered together in one pot. The flour stirred in at the end gives the broth body without needing a roux or separate thickener.

Lemon-anise-poppy seed muffins with whole wheat flour, soy yogurt, and orange juice. Egg-free and dairy-free bundt muffins with a unique licorice-citrus flavor.

Old-fashioned oven-braised beef stew with shin beef, onions, carrots, and potatoes in a tomato-enriched gravy. A traditional Saturday supper that slowly cooks in the oven until the meat pulls apart with a fork.

Traditional Tuscan cavallucci spice cookies built from a hot sugar syrup kneaded with walnuts, candied orange peel, and warm spices like clove, anise, and cinnamon. Chewy, perfumed, and unmistakably medieval.

Old-fashioned yeast cakes made from hops water, potato liquid, flour, and cornmeal. A pioneer-era leavening method you dry and store for homemade bread baking. Just 5 ingredients.