Time-saver/30 recipes

The secret to tender baked beans is to leave the salt out until they are finished cooking. For some reason, salt toughens them. To pamper your tummy, rinse off the beans when they are finished soaking in several changes of cold water. This recipe is easy to prepare ahead and cooks in only two hours.

Old time pound cake, today it is still an excellent recipe!

Submitted by Annalise Ogle (Fall 2011)

"Easy, fast and delicious! I created this recipe so I could feed a crowd on a moments notice and still expect raves. Make the sauce a day ahead and the flavor even improves. This way you can spend time with your guests, not slaving in the kitchen."

If you're in a hurry, try this hassle free recipe that will help you create a scrumptious meat loaf in no time!

A depression era soda bread reicip when many ingredients were in short supply.

Cheeseburger and pie can be enjoyed at the same time. You can find all the yumminess in the burger and pie in this cheeseburger pie.

All Time Favourite Melting Moments recipe

The perfect dish for seafood lovers can now be made and served in no time with your very own crockpot.

The Pennsylvania Dutch settlers made these at Thanksgiving and stored them in a stoneware crock until Christmas. The cookies can be made at any time, but allowed to age for 4-6 weeks.

Instead of turning on the oven and making the kitchen hot, try this simple crockpot recipe that will make scrumptious cabbage rolls in no time!

Barbadians make Black Cake for weddings, birthdays and at Christimas time. Indeed, no Christmas holiday is felt to be complete without black Cake. People from many of the islands make a similar cake. This Black Cake derived from the British Plum Pudding which is a must on their Christmas menu.