Recipe Sifter

Vegan sweet potato and tomato soup with carrots, celery, and a hint of nutmeg, partially pureed for chunky-creamy texture. Healthy, high-fiber bowl perfect for chilly nights.

Make glace fruit at home with this classic four-day method, slowly saturating apples, peaches, cherries, or citrus peel in sugar syrup until candied and leathery. The spent syrup becomes a fruit-flavored pancake syrup.

Grandma's three-ingredient rhubarb jam with strawberry jello for color and set. Freezer-jam method, no canning required. Macerate overnight, boil, jar, freeze.

Ginger peach jam: ripe summer peaches and crystallized ginger cooked into a glossy preserve with pectin. The classic peach jam with a warm, spicy backbone. Makes 8 jars.

Coconut macaroons with crisp golden edges and a soft, chewy middle, made from just egg whites, sugar, and desiccated coconut, with a hint of almond. Naturally gluten-free and quick to bake.

Hot borscht inspired by the Russian Tea Room with shredded beets, cabbage, parsnip, and fresh dill. A classic Eastern European beet soup simmered in vegetable stock.

This is a very easy cranberries sauce, a very good accompaniment to your meal.

Hot wassail made with apple juice, pineapple juice, and cranberry juice simmered with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and lemon. A non-alcoholic holiday punch ready in 15 minutes.

Cracker Barrel-style biscuits use just Bisquick and buttermilk for tender, easy-split biscuits that taste like the restaurant. The double-stack trick is the secret to perfect splits.

Surprise Grandma this Christmas with a jar of this tasty spread that can easily be made in your crockpot.

A delicous amber or red coloured sweet jelly made from tomatoes that can be served just like any other sweet spreads or added to cheese and cracker trays.

Macaroni and TVP skillet mix, a shelf-stable pantry blend of dry elbow pasta, textured vegetable protein, and herbs. The make-ahead vegetarian one-pot dinner kit ready to cook in 25 minutes.

A sweet and spicy jelly that tastes wonderful on toast, in sandwiches or on your famous meat loaf!

Orange, grapefruit, and lime marmalade: a bittersweet three-citrus preserve with fine ribbons of peel suspended in a glossy set, brightened with a splash of Cointreau. Homemade for the toast lovers.

Traditional Irish oatcakes made with just oatmeal, flour, salt, and water. Griddle-cooked then oven-crisped, these sturdy flatbreads pair with butter, cheese, or smoked fish.

Mix grated ginger, sugar, yeast, and lemon juice in a soda bottle, add water, and let it ferment in sunlight until fizzy for this simple homemade ginger beer.