Recipe Sifter

Dilled potato and apple salad with snow peas, celery, and green onions in a light white wine vinaigrette. A mayo-free potato salad with crisp textures and fresh dill.

Nier beurre: traditional Jersey-style apple butter cooked down in reduced cider with orange, lemon, and allspice. A thick, dark, intensely appley spread from the British Isles.

The perfect scrumptious cake for Thanksgiving dinner that your kids will love!

Irish stuffed rabbit with an apple, onion, and breadcrumb stuffing seasoned with thyme and parsley, braised in stock until fork-tender. Traditional countryside cooking.

Okroshka, a chilled Russian meat and vegetable soup with diced cucumber, hard-boiled eggs, sour cream, and mustard in an apple cider base standing in for traditional kvass.

Oatmeal pancakes with chopped Jonathan apples and pecans, cooked in butter until golden. Hearty, rustic breakfast pancakes with fruit baked right into every bite.

Gratineed oysters on the half shell with diced apples and a Calvados sabayon broiled golden. An elegant French appetizer pairing briny oysters with apple brandy cream.

Three-layer apple torte: buttery shortbread crust, sweetened cream cheese filling, cinnamon-sugar apples, and slivered almonds. German-style baked in a springform.

Roasted wild duck stuffed with onion, apple, celery and garlic, braised breast-down in red wine and consomme. The Southern hunter's recipe for taming gamey ducks into a tender feast.

An autumn cheesecake with cinnamon graham cracker crust, creamy vanilla cheesecake center, and a topping of cinnamon-sugar apples and toasted pecans. The flavors of apple pie meet New York cheesecake.

A succulent curried beef dish that is made with seedless raisins and sliced apples while served over hot rice.

Fried apples and onions with bacon: Pennsylvania Dutch skillet side of sweet onions, tart apple rings, and brown sugar cooked in bacon fat. Classic breakfast or pork-chop companion from the Amish country.

Dutch oven pot roast braised in barbecue sauce and apple cider with carrots, potatoes, onions, and okra. Sweet, smoky, and tender enough to cut with a fork. Southern-style Sunday dinner.

Cored apples packed with a savory-sweet filling of ground veal, Parmesan, walnuts, raisins, and sage, then baked until soft and drizzled with a honey-apple brandy butter. An Italian-inspired showstopper that blurs the line between entree and autumn celebration.

Sauteed fresh morel mushrooms with Granny Smith apples, asparagus tips, and butter noodles flambed with Calvados. A spring-foraged dish with chipotle heat and watercress garnish.

This scrumptious spicy apple pie is served with a hot brandy sauce.