Recipe Sifter

Sweet, rich and delicious...a decadent ending to a light meal or, just as a snack. The kiddies will love these.

Caraway rye bread machine loaf with bread flour, all-purpose, and rye flour blend. Toasty caraway seeds throughout for that deli-counter flavor. Set it and walk away.

Keftes de prassa, Sephardic leek meatballs with ground beef, cumin, turmeric, dill, and sesame seeds. Pan-fried and served with lemon wedges or vinegar.

Welsh laverbread and crab souffles with a cockle cream sauce. Individual souffles puffed golden with seaweed, fresh crab, and nutmeg. A traditional Welsh seafood dish.

Elegant sherried baked fruit with layered pineapple, peaches, apricots, cherries, and spiced apple rings in a buttery brown sugar and sherry sauce. Serves 20 for buffets and dinner parties.

As every angler knows, skillet-size brook, brown, and rainbow trout are never more tasty than when prepared this way. Can there be any tastier dish than the one that comes from this happy marriage of fresh trout and butter?

You can serve this delightful cholesterol-free, high-fiber bread on New Year's Eve instead of the traditional bowl of black-eyed peas believed to bring good fortune for the year ahead.

What is cake flour? The other day I ran out of cake flour and needed a substitute, after searching and experimenting I came up with this replacement for cake flour that seems to work quite well.

Buttery, paper-thin ginger cookies with a double hit of crystallized and ground ginger folded into brown sugar dough. Crisp, snappy, and warmly spiced, this recipe yields four dozen from scratch.

Bread machine oat bread with mashed potato flakes for extra moisture. Half oat flour, half bread flour, hands-off baking that stays soft for days.

A boozy twist on traditional holiday treats, featuring a rich blend of chocolate, bourbon, and nuts, making them a cherished family favorite during Christmas.

Sugarless heart cookies sweetened with sugar-free fruit gelatin instead of granulated sugar. Roll-and-cut shortbread-style dough, six ingredients, flavor and color come straight from the gelatin packet.

Lighter apple oat muffins with applesauce in place of much of the fat and rolled oats for chewy texture. Cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves give classic fall-bakery flavor in a 30-minute breakfast muffin.

Fool-proof bread machine French bread: just flour, water, salt and yeast for a crisp-crusted, chewy-crumb loaf. The minimalist bread that never fails. Endlessly customizable.

Overnight starter pizza dough baked on a stone for a chewy, blistered crust with real pizzeria flavor. Just flour, water, yeast, and salt. Save a piece of dough as your next starter.

Thick pork chops dredged in mustard-garlic seasoned flour, browned crispy, then slow-cooked in chicken and rice soup until fall-apart tender. Crockpot comfort at its easiest.