Recipe Sifter

Wholesome whole wheat and oat scones made with oil instead of butter, studded with raisins or currants. Ready in 30 minutes with endless flavor variations.

Carrot cake with crushed pineapple, raisins, cinnamon, and ginger. Moist, tender crumb perfect with cream cheese frosting. Makes a sheet cake or 4 mini loaves.

Open face apple tart with overlapping Golden Delicious slices, apricot glaze, and a buttery pastry shell. The classic French tarte aux pommes done simply at home.

Homemade granola with rolled oats, wheat germ, honey, and raisins. A simple, low-sugar breakfast batch that beats anything in the cereal aisle.

Golden pumpkin bread is a moist pumpkin quick bread with a twist: cornmeal for a golden, tender crumb, sour cream for richness, warm pumpkin pie spice, and studded with raisins and pecans. A cozy fall loaf.

Moist breakfast apple muffins lightened with applesauce, buttermilk, and egg whites. Just two tablespoons of oil and chunks of fresh apple in every cinnamon-spiced bite.

Cuban-style picadillo with ground beef, raisins, olives, apple, jalapeno, and warm spices like cinnamon and cloves. Serve over rice, in tacos, or as a stuffed pepper filling.

Carrot cake muffins with whole wheat flour, crushed pineapple, raisins, and walnuts. A lightly spiced, oil-free, lower-sugar version that bakes in 15 minutes.

Pumpkin bread with dark molasses, brown sugar, and three warm spices, plus walnuts and optional raisins. Makes three loaves. Tender, deeply spiced, and freezes beautifully for the holidays.

Hamantaschen are triangular Purim cookies with a tender butter dough wrapped around a prune, raisin, walnut, and lemon filling. Traditional Jewish holiday treat, makes 5 dozen.

Poppyseed and nut filling for hamantaschen blends ground poppy seeds with chopped nuts, raisins, citron, and milk into a thick, jewel-toned paste. The traditional mohn filling for Purim cookies.

Buttery vanilla cookies studded with plump raisins and baked until edges turn golden. These cut-out treats bring teatime nostalgia straight from the oven to your cooling rack.

Learn how to make Easter Hot Cross buns. This easy, no-knead rendition is a sweet Easter tradition to make on Good Friday. This recipe yields subtly sweet buns studded with candied fruit, raisins, and warm spices of cinnamon and nutmeg.

Jambon de la cabane a sucre, a traditional Quebec sugar shack ham simmered in apple juice or maple sap then glazed with maple sugar, cloves, and a sweet raisin sauce.

Moroccan vegetable stew with chickpeas, butternut squash, sweet potato, dried apricots, and raisins, spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and turmeric. Served over couscous.

Rice and Italian sausage stuffing with raisins, mustard greens, Parmesan, sage, thyme, and rosemary. A bread-free stuffing for a 10-12 pound turkey, make-ahead friendly.