Recipe Sifter

This traditional British Christmas pudding steams for hours with brandy-soaked fruits, warm spices, and breadcrumbs, then blazes to the table in flaming glory.

Hanz's Swiss-German bratwurst: a homemade pork and veal sausage seasoned with white wine and freshly ground spices, double-ground for a fine texture and stuffed into hog casings. An old family recipe.

Dried apple pie reconstitutes dried apple slices in fresh apple cider, then bakes them under a flaky double crust with cinnamon and nutmeg. The Appalachian winter pie made when fresh apples are out of season.

An quick and easy to make enriched Bechamel sauce that is excellent on fish or other broiled meats.

Perfect for Halloween, these scrumptious pumpkin cookies can also be topped off with orange frosting.

A rich and delectable dessert that will warm you and your tastebuds up!

Piroshki: golden Russian stuffed buns of soft yeast dough wrapped around savory beef, mushroom, or buckwheat fillings, then baked or fried. The portable hand pie of Russian home cooking.

Moist apple cake with grated apples, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg in a tender oil-based batter studded with walnuts. Sheet-pan style cake that bakes in a 9x13 pan, no frosting required.

Sugar-free apple pie sweetened entirely with concentrated frozen apple juice instead of added sugar. A diabetic-friendly double-crust classic spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, baked golden in under an hour.

Made these muffins along with the pineapple bran muffins. They were super moist and delicious too. There is no refined sugar added in this recipe, but the muffins were sweet enough because of the pineapples and raisins that also added some extra goodness as well. It did taste like a carrot cake but much lower fat and calories.

No-bake rum-raisin balls with dark rum-soaked oats, cocoa, golden raisins, walnuts, and coconut rolled in sugar. A boozy, fudgy holiday treat that keeps for 10 days or freezes for months.

Ginger bread is one of the classic and traditional cookies people make for Christmas. The rich flavor from brown sugar and molasses is so good and the spices make the uniquely delicious taste.

Savor the comforting taste of Medisterkaker, traditional Norwegian pork meatballs seasoned with warm spices and simmered to perfection. This hearty dish combines ground pork, potato starch, and a touch of milk for a tender texture, making it an ideal cozy meal for any occasion.

Cajun coffee swirls strong hot brew with dark molasses for a New Orleans-style nightcap with serious backbone. Optional dark rum and a cloud of whipped cream finish it Bourbon Street style. Don't stir, sip through the cream.

Just about any combination of grated cheese, vegetables, leftover meat, poultry, or seafood, or whatever else appeals to you can be added to this all-purpose custard.

This turned out quite nicely, was surprised at how well it held together considering there was no egg to help bind the ingredients together. We made a vegetarian shallot gravy to go along with it. Nice herby flavor throughout.